(Your Name)
Views Statement
Tennessee Valley Presbytery
(Please send this views statement to us electronically so we can easily distribute it. Please also confine your views
statement to no more than 4 ten or twelve-point typed pages.)
(Please note that none of the language in parentheses should be included in your final views statement. The questions are
for your guidance only and should disappear from the final document. Your answers should be in the form of positive and
negative statements and should not be structured in such a way as to have the appearance of answering questions.)
Scripture
(What do believe about scripture? Do you believe the Bible is inerrant and infallible, and why?)
World and Life View
(Including what is the relationship between evangelism and the cultural mandate?)
Creation
(What is your view of the days of creation? Can you list the other views that are acceptable in the PCA, and how do you
feel about those who hold to them?)
Doctrine of Christ and the Trinity
(Give a short statement and differentiate your view from other, non-orthodox views. How does your view of the Trinity
effect your worship? Why is a proper and full view of this necessary?)
Justification
(What is Justification? How does the "New Perspective on Paul" inform your view of justification?)
Sanctification
(What is sanctification, and what is the relationship between justification and sanctification, especially in light of Norm
Shepherd’s teaching and the New Perspective on Paul?)
Eternal Punishment/Eternal Life
(Is Hell/Lake of Fire eternal and conscious? Is the resurrection of the dead bodily?)
God’s Sovereignty and Providence
(What do we mean by these terms and do you believe them?)
Covenant of Redemption
(What is the covenant of redemption?)
Covenant Theology/Dispensationalism
(What are these two views? What does the Bible say about God’s plan for the genetic descendants of Abraham? Does God
have a plan for the nation of Israel?)
Baptism
(What is baptism? In light of "Federal Vision Theology," what happens in baptism?)
The Lord's Supper
(What is the Lord’s Supper? What happens in the Lord's Supper? To whom should it be administered?)
The Gospel
(What is the gospel? Please read that question carefully and think about the answer.? Does your answer mention sin, the
cross, the resurrection, faith in Jesus?)
The Five Points of Calvinism
(What are they, and do you strongly hold to the traditional Reformed teaching on each, including limited atonement?)
The Doctrine of the Spirit
(Person and work of the Spirit and gifts of the Spirit)
Eschatology
(What is your eschatological position, and why do you hold to this view?)
Marriage and Divorce
(Include your thoughts on remarriage, and do you believe marriage is designed only for the joining of one man and one
woman?)
Ordination of Women to Church Office
Subscription to the Westminster Standards
(What is your view of subscription?)
The Regulative Principle
(What is it, and do you hold to it?)
Exceptions to the Westminster Standards
(Have you actually read the WCF, WLC, WSC carefully enough to answer this? Please note that there are passages on
exclusive psalmody, etc.)
Scruples with the Book of Church Order
(this includes the passage on language for "fencing the table")