Jesus Christ is Lord.

That is our core belief at FPCM, and it is the core belief of our denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA). Over hundreds of years, our Church has further defined our beliefs, including our understanding of the Bible as the unique and authoritative witness to Jesus Christ, in our Constitution, consisting of the Book of Confessions and the Book of Order:

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) states its faith and bears witness to God’s grace in Jesus Christ in the creeds and confessions in The Book of Confessions. In these confessional statements the church declares to its members and to the world

who and what it is,
what it believes,
what it resolves to do.

These statements identify the church as a community of people known by its convictions as well as by its actions. They guide the church in its study and interpretation of the Scriptures; they summarize the essence of Christian tradition; they direct the church in maintaining sound doctrines; they equip the church forits work of proclamation. (Book of Order, G-2.0100)

The Book of Confessions includes the Nicene Creed (AD 325-381), the Apostles' Creed (180-750), the Scots Confession (1560), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), the Shorter Catechism (1649), the Larger Catechism (1649), the Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934), the Confession of 1967, and A Brief Statement of Faith (1983). We encourage you to become familiar with these historical creeds and confessions that describe our beliefs.

Our Book of Order further states that:

"God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in anything contrary to his Word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.” Therefore we consider the rights of private judgment, in all matters that respect religion, as universal and unalienable: We do not even wish to see any religious constitution aided by the civil power, further than may be necessary for protection and security, and at the same time, be equal and common to all others. (G-1.0300)