Rosebrook Presbyterian Church exists to bring spiritual, cultural, and gospel renewal in Rockville, the D.C. Metro Area, and the world.

• Spiritual renewal: We seek to connect people to God through worship, evangelism, and discipleship as the Holy Spirit uses the preaching of the gospel for his work of regeneration and progressive sanctification.

• Cultural renewal: We seek to connect people to God in their everyday lives, particularly at the intersection of faith, work, and community.

• Gospel renewal: We seek to connect people to God through a reformation of the mind and heart by centering their thoughts and affections on Christ and his finished work on the cross.

Our mission is to reflect Christ through gospel-centered worship, cross-cultural discipleship, and holistically loving our neighbors.

1. Gospel Centrality

We affirm the centrality of the gospel in all of Scripture contained in the Old and New Testaments, where Christ’s redemptive work on the cross has individual, systemic, and cosmic implications.
See Created & Creating: A Biblical Theology of Culture by William Edgar and The Emergence of Sin: The Cosmic Tyrant in Romans by Matthew Croasmun.

2. Multiplication

We affirm that Jesus’ primary means of growing his church is through the multiplication of disciples across cultures, races, and generations. We are commissioned to train, mentor, and point one another to Christ in order to become more like him (Titus 2:2-8).
See Center Church by Tim Keller.

3. Bridge Building

We affirm that the ethics of God’s Kingdom are marked by peacemaking (Matt 5:9), or bridge building, resulting in the rejection of false dichotomies and the pursuit of a “Kingdom alternative” to potentially divisive issues.
See Thinking through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique by Christopher Watkin.

4. Truth & Justice 

We affirm that evangelism consists of loving our neighbors holistically–preaching truth and pursuing justice. In the words of the late missiologist, Harvie Conn, we desire to be a church “that exists for the sake of its non-members.”
See Evangelism: Doing Justice and Preaching Grace by Harvie Conn and St. Basil’s sermons on charity and justice.

5. Unity & Diversity

We affirm the unity of the human race against racism and those who seek to divide our communities in order to consolidate power and/or maintain statuses of privilege at the expense of marginalized groups. Simultaneously, we affirm the diversity of the human race against those who seek to undermine or whitewash historical and present acts of oppression, marginalization, and discrimination through hegemonic expressions of cultural normativity.
See The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby.

Our Beliefs

All Scripture is self-attesting, and being Truth requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God—the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments—is a complete and unified witness to God’s redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks. On this sure foundation, we affirm these additional essentials of our faith.

1. We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him be all honor, glory, and praise forever!

2. Jesus Christ, the living Word, became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever. He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He now is our High Priest and Mediator.

3. The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior, indwelling our hearts. He gives new life to us, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.

4. Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God’s free grace. God credits His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight. Only such as are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become children of God and heirs of eternal life.

5. The true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ. The Church finds her visible yet imperfect expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments are administered in their integrity, where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting she awaits the return of her Lord.

6. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth personally, visibly, and bodily—to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).

7. The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to make disciples of all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).

This statement is taken from the Evangelical Presbyterian Church’s Essentials of the Faith. For a full statement of belief, please see EPC’s Statement of Beliefs here.