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Lake Forest Church

📍P.O. BOX 271778, Flower, Mound Texas, United States
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Inherited from denomination

What Evangelical Presbyterian Church teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Confessional standard: Westminster Confession of Faith · Westminster Larger Catechism · Westminster Shorter Catechism

Affirms
Denies
  • Apostolic Successionweak
    Congregational and presbyterian polity reject the necessity of tactile episcopal succession.
  • Assumption of Maryweak
    Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
  • Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsstandard
    Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
  • Immaculate Conceptionstandard
    Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
  • Perpetual Virginity of Maryweak
    Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
  • Transubstantiationstandard
    Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
  • Women in pastoral / ordained officestandard
    1 Timothy 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:34; historic apostolic practice.
Wrestles with
  • Believer's Baptismweak
    Paedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
  • Pacifism vs. just-warweak
    Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
  • Real Presenceweak
    Calvin's spiritual presence (genuinely present but not physically) is neither strong affirm nor deny; Anglican/Methodist typically hold a receptionist view.
  • Theotokosweak
    Confessionally valid title (Ephesus is a received council) but not used devotionally; retained in liturgy where liturgy is retained.
In their own words

Statements

statement_of_faith
<!doctype html> About Us Our Family Our History Beliefs Church Planting School of Ministry Give Online Contact Beliefs At Lake Forest Church, everything points to Jesus. We are a members of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) denomination. (But at LFC we call ourselves ‘presbyterian’ with a small p’ because we are first and foremost about following Jesus, along with all other streams of the Christian faith globally.) We choose to practice submission to authority within the EPC because we believe it’s healthy and important for churches and pastors to be anchored in accoun
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about_us
<!doctype html> About Us Our Family Our History Beliefs Church Planting School of Ministry Give Online Contact Quick Links Home Contact Preschool Locations Huntersville WestLake Espanol/El Buen Samaritano UCity Learn More About Lake Forest Church Stay Connected &copy; 2021 Lake Forest Church, All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use
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beliefs
About Us Our Family Our History Beliefs Church Planting School of Ministry Give Online Contact Beliefs At Lake Forest Church, everything points to Jesus. We are a members of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) denomination. (But at LFC we call ourselves ‘presbyterian’ with a small p’ because we are first and foremost about following Jesus, along with all other streams of the Christian faith globally.) We choose to practice submission to authority within the EPC because we believe it’s healthy and important for churches and pastors to be anchored in accountability. The motto and guiding p
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