What makes the CRC distinctive?
1. We are trying to be an inclusive church. By this we mean that we welcome and embrace people of different gifts, races, tongues, and traditions as members of our congregations. We want to reflect the church of Revelation 7:9-10, a church in which “there were so many people that no one could count them. They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language of the earth. They were all standing before the throne and before the Lamb . . . . They were shouting in a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb’ (The Everyday Bible). 2. We are a family-centered church. We believe in the importance of the family unit. We encourage worship as families. And we believe that the church is the family of God, a spiritual family. We are a family made up of many different people. Some are old, some are young, some are single, some are married, some are men, and some are women. We come together as natural families and as singles to form this spiritual family o
