Our beliefs center on a story. It is a true story grounded in history and found in God’s Word, the Bible, and a story that has been told and retold across countless generations. This story involves four major acts: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and  Renewal. It is a story of God's relentless, loving pursuit of his rebellious creation through the sending of his Son, Jesus, to reclaim people, places and things. Jesus is in the process of renewing and redeeming people from every walk of life, from every nation and tribe, enlisting those people then to help makes all things new. In our gatherings on Sunday and at other times in the week, we retell this story to one another as a reminder of the goodness and love of God for sinners like us.

We believe that God is actively making all things new, and calls his people to partner with him by being loving ambassadors and witnesses to Jesus in this world. When Christians do this in community, their neighborhoods and workplaces then they make tangible pictures of God's kingdom. We long for the people who live in our neighborhoods and who share our workplaces to be able to look at our lives and see something that is both distinct and beautiful.

The Presbyterian Church of Kennett Square is a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). The EPC denomination exists to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus as Presbyterian, Reformed, Evangelical and Missional congregations. To the glory of God, our EPC family aspires to embody and proclaim Jesus’ love as a global movement of congregations engaged together in God’s mission through transformation, multiplication and effective biblical leadership. The EPC consists of more than 600 churches with approximately 145,000 members. We have a world missions program with a priority on sending missionaries to unreached people groups. We’re eager to plant churches across the United States and especially in urban communities and college towns. Our desire is that every one of our congregations will be an outpost of the Kingdom, with every member viewing himself or herself as a missionary on a mission.

Our church is part of the Reformed Tradition, expressed through our membership in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (for more details see below). The Reformed Tradition celebrates the loving sovereignty of God, the goodness of his creation, the centrality of God's story in all of life, and the necessity of grace, especially in salvation.

We hold to Presbyterian church government, which simply means we are led by a team of elders and are connected to other churches. Being connected is really helpful for the accomplishment of our mission and keeps us account for how we live. As Presbyterians, we also believe that the sacraments of baptism and communion not only represent God's grace, but also seal and apply that grace in our lives.

Please contact the church office at office@pcks.org.

All Scripture is self-attesting and being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, is a complete and unified witness to God’s redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks.

We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To him be all honor, glory and praise forever!

Jesus Christ, the living Word, became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and his virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever. He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day he arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, he now is our High Priest and Mediator.

The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior. Indwelling our hearts, he gives new life to us, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.

Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God’s free grace. God credits his righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, thereby justifying them in his sight. Only such as are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become children of God and heirs of eternal life.

The true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ. The Church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments are administered in their integrity; where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting, she awaits the return of her Lord.

Jesus Christ will come again to the earth—personally, visibly, and bodily—to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).

The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to make disciples of all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to “him who loved us and gave himself for us.” He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).