Church Profile
Service Times
Sundays from 10:00am to 11:00am
(319) 217-2388
Pastor Bryan Schneider
Our Mission
A Safe Place to Grow
Sharon RP’s mission is focused on Discipleship and Evangelism. We desire to love the LORD and see him exalted in all the world. We strive for the world to be evangelized, converts to be established in the faith, disciples to be equipped, and laborers to be sent out.
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About Sharon RP Church
Who We Are
+ What's This Place All About?
We're all about Jesus Christ. Jesus told us to pray for His goal - “Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven.”
That starts with God’s work - He gives us new hearts to love Him. We are people who desperately need His love and grace. We are His children. He grows us. He unites us to Jesus. And He makes us bear fruit.
We’re a multigenerational church. We want to see your children rooted in their faith. We want to see your young people walking in the light of the Lord. We want to see you finish the race well.
Loving Jesus Christ. Everything starts with who He is and what He has done. He’s given us the greatest gift - himself. He’s saved us and loved us and given us His Holy Spirit. Do you desire to grow in that love?
+ How Do We Grow?
Growing is tied to what Christians call discipleship - following, learning, and being changed. At Sharon this happens primarily in 3 ways - word, sacraments, and prayer. We grow more and more like Him when we are saturated with His word: reading, hearing, studying, meditating, memorizing, and even singing. We grow in our faith as we partake of the sacraments - the Lord’s Supper or Communion, and baptism. Lastly, we grow by praying. We pray as individually, as families, in our smaller groups, and every time we are together for worship. We pray for our needs, each other’s needs, our communities needs, and for needs around the world.
Life is about bringing God glory. Do you long to know Him and the power of His resurrection? Our desire is to see you, our community, and the world changed by the powerful working of His spirit.
+ Our Faith
You’ll notice a certain flavor about our church. It’s because there is a rich history we’re a part of called the Reformed Church. Sharon RP Church is about Christ, Grace, Faith, the Bible, and God’s Glory.
Christ is the author and perfecter of our faith. He is our hope and high priest. He is our savior and our king.
God has saved us by Grace and not by our works. God has made us alive - in Jesus. In Jesus we have our life.
God has given us faith to believe in the person and work of Jesus. It is by Grace through Faith in which we are saved. What a free gift!
God has given us His perfect word. It is perfectly inspired without error. The Bible He gave us is our rule for faith and life.
God made the world for His glory. God made us for His glory. God made the church for His glory. The purpose our of lives is to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.
We hold to the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms and the RP Testimony.
You can find out more about our denomination by searching the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA). Our denomination is a member of the North American Presbyterian & Reformed Council (NAPARC) as well as the International Conference of Reformed churches (ICRC).
For almost 175 years we have been committed to proclaiming the glory of Jesus Christ in Morning Sun.
Denomination / Affiliation:
Presbyterian
Service and Sermon Style:
Verse-by-Verse Teaching
Dress Style:
semiformal
Average Age of Attendees:
all-ages
Community Projects:
0-12
Primary Language:
English
MINISTRIES AND GROUPS
Church Ministries
Men’s
Women’s
Sunday School
Adult
Small Groups
Groups and Public Services
Counseling Services
Vacation Bible School
Home School families are welcome to come once a month for HOME Group (helping other mothers educate). Bring the kids as Pastor Bryan plays and does gym. Be encouraged and challenged as you learn about socialization, how to avoid burn out, homeschool & romance, management, time management and more.
BELIEFS
Who we are a Congregation of Redeemed Rebels Glorifying and Enjoying God
Scripture Alone
We are a historic reformed church. Jesus Christ is the only king and head of His church. We believe His word is perfect, pure, perspicuous, infallible and inerrant. We are unwavering in our devotion to God, His kingdom, and His word.
Christ Alone
As humans we are radically corrupt sinners and in desperate need of grace. Saving grace is found only in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Jesus is our righteousness. Jesus is our atonement. Jesus is our king. Jesus is our Messiah. Jesus is our master. Jesus is the head of His church. Indeed the Church is Jesus’ body and bride.
Down to the core of our being, we are sinners, totally depraved or utterly corrupt. He is holy we are not. It is only by God’s sovereign grace that we have any hope. It is God’s prerogative whom he will forbear and to whom He will lavish His love upon. We as sinful humans do not deserve His kindness. Rather, while we were yet dead in our transgression and sins He saved us. God chose His people unconditionally. There was no condition upon His election. God chose His children, in Christ, before the foundations of the world. God paid the price for sin, for His children, with the blood of His only begotten Son. The atonement is limited to His children. The Father, without human cooperation, truly saves. God irresistibly takes out the sinner’s heart of stone and transplants it with a heart of flesh. A heart that beats and lives by and for Jesus Christ. Out of that regenerate heart and union with Christ we joyfully serve our new master. We are no longer slaves to sin but declared righteous. In response, we worship Him. We come to Him only with the faith which He gave us from the riches of His grace. We could not work to earn His grace for then it would not be grace. God has begun a good work in His children and will bring it unto completion. He will not lose any of His sheep but will have them persevere to the end. God gives us good work to do for His glory. Indeed all things are for His glory.
Faith Alone & Grace Alone
For His own glory He saved us. He is redeeming His chosen people. Our King sits upon His throne and reigns supreme over all rulers, and princes, and principalities. Our entire lives are oriented toward bringing Him glory and enjoying Him forever. We have been declared legally righteous. Through double imputation we are righteous and our sins remembered no more. The Father and the Son have given us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit now indwells each Christian whom God has redeemed. He has united us to Christ and out of that union of Christ Christians bear good fruit. Fruits flowing from our union with Christ necessarily include being conformed more and more into the image of Christ, mortification of our sins, and living lives of holiness. The fruits of holiness are by no means a grounds for boasting. Even in our good works we say that, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.” As sinners, out of a true sense of our sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, we do, with grief and hatred of our sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.
The Ordinary Means Of Grace & To God Alone Be The Glory
There are three ordinary yet powerful means by which Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption. It pleases God to use especially the word, sacraments, and prayer. The word read, preached, memorized, studied, meditated upon, and sung. The sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. As well as individual and corporate prayers. While these means are ordinary, simple, or outwardly plain, God uses them powerfully in the life of His people. God has saved us for His own glory. God sanctifies us for His own Glory.
Primary Bible Version Used:
New King James
Baptism:
Both
Communion Frequency:
Occasionally
Eternal Security:
No, Can't Lose
Healing and Charismatic Gifts:
Ceased
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Sharon RP Church is a Reformed Church located in Zip Code 52640.
Church Profile Manager: Bryan Schneider