What We Have Found

Today, more than ever, people need answers to the most important questions about life and death. Questions like “Who is God, and what does He expect of me?” “Am I not too sinful to be forgiven?” “Doesn't science disprove the Bible, and isn't the Bible just the words of men?” “Is there a heaven, and how can I know that I will go there when I die?” “Is there only one way to God?”

The people at Bishop Cummins Reformed Episcopal Church have found the answers to these questions and many more in the Bible. We have found that the Bible is true. We invite you to discover this as well.

Our Motto
We are committed to the Bible, declaring, “It is true – it is eternally true.”

Our Purpose
We exist to honor God and to declare that Jesus is the Way, the TRUTH, and the Life by:

Telling others about Jesus Christ
Raising up mature followers of Christ
Uniting in sound, Bible-centered worship
Touching one another through His love
Helping those in need

Jesus prayed to the Father: “Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.” John 17:17

Our Convictions
We embrace the Bible as the Word of God and we hold to the historic truths revealed by Jesus Christ to the Apostles, confirmed by the ecumenical councils during the first five centuries of Christianity, and reconfirmed by the great Reformers – Luther, Calvin, and Cranmer. We confess the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, recognizing them as faithful expressions of what a Christian ought to believe based upon what the Bible teaches.

We recognize as true Christians all who confess Christ as Lord and Savior (relying on Christ alone for salvation), who confess the Holy Scriptures as God's Word, and who believe in the blessed Trinity. We say that we are part of the "church catholic", meaning the universal Body of Christ made up of all believers in Jesus, regardless of their denomination, culture, sex, ethnic heritage, or race.

Our Worship
Our worship services are based on a form that has been followed since the time of the Apostles. It is called “liturgy,” which means the “work” of worship. Our worship is Bible-centered from the reading of the Scriptures, the singing of traditional and contemporary hymns and songs, the use of the Book of Common Prayer of the Reformed Episcopal Church (2003 Edition), to the faithful preaching of the Word of God.

Our Invitation to You
We are delighted at your interest and invite you to learn more about the mission and ministry of Bishop Cummins Reformed Episcopal Church and how you might be a part of it.

If you are looking for a church home that has God as its focus, Christ as its central message, fellowship at its heart, spiritual growth as its goal, and outreach as its mission, then come and explore Bishop Cummins Reformed Episcopal Church.

Call our office anytime during the week for further information. Service times and events are posted on our voice mail 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you would like to talk to one of the pastors or the receptionist, call 410-744-3383 during office hours from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., Monday through Thursday.

What the Reformed Episcopal Church believes...

Built upon the foundation of the authoritative Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, the Reformed Episcopal Church declares her commitment to the work of evangelism, the bold and unadulterated proclamation of salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 8:4). In keeping the faith once delivered to the saints, the Reformed Episcopal Church, however, does not believe evangelism to be the end, but rather the beginning of her divinely given vocation. Thus, she is deeply committed to discipleship, the work of training evangelized men and women in Christian living (St. Matthew 28:20}. This inescapably means that the Reformed Episcopal Church sets her highest priority on biblical worship. When the gospel is truly proclaimed and the mercies of God are made known, redeemed men and women must be led to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice, which is their spiritual service of worship (Romans 12:1). Thus, the Reformed Episcopal Church understands the Christian life to be necessarily corporate.

The Gospel call of salvation is not only to a Savior but also to a visible communion of those who have been saved (1 Cor. 12:27), which communion, being in-dwelt by Christ's Spirit, transcends both temporal and geographic bounds. Therefore, the Reformed Episcopal Church is creedal, following the historic Christian faith as it was affirmed by the early undivided Church in the Apostle's (A. D. 150) and Nicene Creed (A. D. 325); sacramental, practicing the divinely ordained sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper as outward and visible signs of His inward and spiritual grace; confessional, accepting the doctrines and practices of the English Reformation as found in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion; and episcopal, finding unity with the Church of the earliest Christian eras through submission to the government of godly Bishops. In this fashion, by embracing the broad base of doctrine and practice inherent in the historic Church of the Reformation, the Reformed Episcopal Church has a foundation for effective ministry in the name of Christ to a world which is lost and dying without Him.