Church Registry Questionnaire

Describe your church/fellowship:

Questions:

1. Does your church or fellowship have a creed or confession? If so, what is it?

NA None The Westminster Confession of Faith (1729) The 'Apostle's' Creed The Nicene Creed (325 AD) The Athanasian Creed (c. 400 AD) Definition of Chalcedon (451 AD) The Augsburg Confession of Faith (1530) The Belgic Confession (1561) The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (1571, 1662) The Canons of Dordt (1619) The Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

Other creed or confession of faith? List here:

2. Does your church or fellowship disagree with any of the 33 chapters of the Westminster Confession (see Gordon Clark’s book, What Do Presbyterians Believe? for the text of the American version)?

NA Yes No

If so, please list areas of disagreement.

3. Does your church or fellowship belong to, affiliate with, or contribute financially to a denomination, mission agency, or other group (such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Campus Crusade, Coral Ridge Ministries, InterVarsity, Ligonier Ministries, Prison Fellowship, Promise Keepers)?

NA Yes No

If so, which denomination(s), agency(s), or group(s)?

4. Does your church or fellowship subscribe to the Reformation Day Statement (which denounces Evangelicals and Catholics Together) and the Reformation Day Declaration (which denounces Evangelicals and Catholics Together [Charles Colson et al.], the New Perspective on Paul [N. T. Wright et al.], and the Auburn Avenue Theology [Norman Shepherd et al.] ) posted at the Trinity Foundation website?

NA Statement (1998) Only Declaration (2004) Only Both No

5. Does your church or fellowship believe and teach that there are tensions, antinomies, apparent contradictions, or paradoxes in Scripture that cannot be logically reconciled?

NA Yes No

6. Does your church or fellowship believe that “God’s revelation in creation and redemption fails to reveal him adequately..... in reality he is not what we declare him to be” (Herman Bavinck)?

NA Yes No

7. Does your church or fellowship use, observe, or display any of the following in its public meetings (indicate all that are used or displayed):

a. choir?

NA Yes No

b. drums?

NA Yes No

c. Christmas or Christmas Eve services/communion?

NA Yes No

d. bells?

NA NA Yes No

e. candles?

NA Yes No

f. kneelers?

NA Yes No

g. Good Friday services/communion?

NA Yes No

h. drama?

NA Yes No

i. dance?

NA Yes No

j. exclusive psalmody?

NA Yes No

k. vestments/gowns?

NA Yes No

l. recitation of the "Apostles Creed"?

NA Yes No

m. recitation of the Nicene Creed?

NA Yes No

n. images (paintings, statues, icons, pictures)?

NA Yes No

o. incense?

NA Yes No

p. church calendar?

NA Yes No

q. Advent observance?

NA Yes No

r. Lent observance?

NA Yes No

s. Christmas trees?

NA Yes No

8. Does your church or fellowship have elected officers that is, Elders and Deacons?

NA Not yet Yes No

9. Have those officers been ordained as well as elected?

NA Yes No

10. Are all your officers men?

NA Yes No

11. If you have a period of instruction you call Sunday School, do you divide attendees by age or sex?

NA Age Only Sex Only Both No Sunday School