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What is Saint's Rest?

Saint's Rest is a Confessional Baptist Church in Midland, Texas committed to proclaiming the sufficiency of Christ while working with the Grace Reformed Network.  We gather weekly to be pointed outside of ourselves to the unchanging Christ, who is our only wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. In doing so we are reminded week after week of the rest that belongs to each Christian according to the gospel - Christ himself.

To take a deeper dive into the meaning of our name "Saint's Rest Reformed Church" follow the link below for a full, in depth, explanation.

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Saint's Rest Creeds and
Confession of Faith

The Church’s final and ultimate authority is the Word of God. There are, however, explanations of biblical doctrine which have served the church throughout its history. The Orthodox Creeds and Protestant Reformed Confessions of Faith were born out of moments of much-needed clarity. The Creeds and Confessions also helped the church define orthodoxy, informed its worship, and provided it with a trusted exposition of the Law and Gospel of Christ. 

While we do not understand Creeds and Confessions of Faith to be inspired or to carry the same authority as scripture, we receive them as subservient authorities since they are faithful expositions of scripture and represent the foremost doctrinal witness of the church before us. We have submitted to the Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed and Creed of Chalcedon and 1689 Second London Baptist Confession as our teaching standards in order to assist us in our pursuit of Reformed Protestant Orthodoxy. We affirm the usefulness of these documents to the church, as a guide for teaching, doctrine to unite around, and protection from heresies both old and new.

Common language at the time of the Creeds and Confession includes calling the universal body of believers (the Church) the "catholic church", this is not identifying the Universal Church with the Roman Catholic Church, but instead identifying the unity or catholicty of all believers in Christ

Confessions and Creeds

If you would like to know more about why we choose to ascribe to a confession, follow the link below. Or click on each link below to read the creeds and confessions

Apostle's Creed

1689 London Baptist Confession

SRRC Statement of Catholicity

Nicene Creed

Chalcedonian Creed
Athanasian Creed

Core Distinctive Videos

Confessionalism—SRRC Distinctives

Confessionalism—SRRC Distinctives

Lecture on confessionalism—a foundational distinctive of SRRC.
Covenant Theology—SRRC Distinctives

Covenant Theology—SRRC Distinctives

Lecture on covenant theology—a foundational distinctive of SRRC.
The Law and The Gospel—SRRC Distinctives

The Law and The Gospel—SRRC Distinctives

SRRC Core Distinctives Lecture 3 of 7—The Law and The Gospel “This difference between the Law and the Gospel is the height of knowledge in Christendom." -Martin Luther "There is no point upon which men make greater mistakes than upon the relation which exists between the law and the gospel." -Spurgeon "Ignorance of this distinction between Law and Gospel is one of the principal sources of the abuses which corrupted and still corrupt Christianity.” -Theodore Beza "If [This substantial distinction between the law and the gospel is] rejected, the heart of the "protest" against Rome is rejected." -Samuel Renihan "To know the difference so as to be able to distinguish aright between the law and the gospel is of the utmost importance to the faith, holiness, and comfort of every true Christian. It will be impossible otherwise for a man so to believe as to “be filled with joy and peace in believing." -John Colquhoun "the moment we understand how to distinguish between Law and Gospel, it is as if the sun were rising upon the Scriptures, and we behold all the contents of the Scriptures in the most beautiful harmony" -CFW Walther
Rest Vs Pietism—SRRC Distinctives

Rest Vs Pietism—SRRC Distinctives

SRRC Core Distinctives Lecture 4 of 7—Rest Vs Pietism “The believer is delivered from the power of the law, and the power of sin too; having cast off the law as a covenant, and finding nothing to satisfy and still his conscience but the blood and righteousness of Christ, that satisfies divine justice; as in this way he finds rest from the curse of the law, so also some rest from the rule and dominion of sin; the faith of God’s love in Christ does purify his heart, and kill his natural enmity, insomuch that he can attest, to his sweet experience, that the faith of the love of God in Christ is so far from leading him to licentiousness of life, or encouraging laziness, that he finds it the hottest fire in the world, to melt his heart for sin; and the strongest cord in the world, to bind him to duty, while the love of God is shed abroad upon him.” -Ralph Erskine, Law-Death, Gospel-Life
The Foundation of Grace—SRRC Distinctives

The Foundation of Grace—SRRC Distinctives

The grace in which we stand as we rest in Christ has its foundation in the eternal God Himself. SRRC Distinctives lecture 5 of 7
The Ordinary Means of Grace—SRRC Distinctives

The Ordinary Means of Grace—SRRC Distinctives

Continuing our lecture series on the confessional distinctives of Saint's Rest Reformed Church, we consider the centrality of the gathering of the church for the Christian life. SRRC Distinctives—lecture 6 of 7
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