Reformed Episcopal Church

The Reformed Episcopal Church reveals its evangelical and liturgical heritage in worship which proclaims the gospel through traditional forms, while reaching out to others and emphasizing ministry to families. Worship has an important relationship to all forms of ministry in the Reformed Episcopal Church. As an evangelical church, it is committed not to divorce worship from true faith. As a liturgical church, it seeks to avoid conducting evangelism in a vacuum. The proclamation of the gospel is for a specific doxological end. This dual emphasis on evangelical faith and worship grows out of the Reformed Episcopal Church's foundation in Holy Scripture. St. Paul, in particular, weaves the two together in his letter to the Romans: For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says,"Everyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame. " For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile-the sam…