Who We Are

Moose Mountain Reformed Baptist Church is a Bible-believing, confessional, Christ-centered, Gospel-focused church that is committed to the redemptive historical teaching and proclamation of God’s word to our community and beyond.

We seek to be a community of people who covenant and worship together on the Lord’s Day for one purpose: to see God glorified through the church’s ordinances and by proclaiming and living out His Word.

It is our desire to see all who join us cling to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and press on towards holiness with us.

Our Mission To Spread The Word

King Jesus is sovereign over all the spheres in this world: the church, the government, and the home.

“And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20

Therefore, our joy is to replicate Jesus’ mandate to disciple the nations by the ordinary means of His church gathering together and by taking the Gospel to the lost.

The Way Things Are

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
2 Timothy 3:16

The Bible is the very Word of God!

“Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
2 Peter 1:20-21

The Bible is Inspired by God!

Therefore we can be sure the Bible is without error, is incapable of error, and is our ultimate authority.

But since men are born in sin, they will not accept this reality, but instead rebel against the truth that can be known about God in His Word.

“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
Romans 3:10-12

The Work Jesus Christ Did

At the exact time in history appointed by the Father, God the Son came and took on flesh to accomplish the Father’s will. God’s rebellious creation, hopeless in their sin, was at the mercy of an act of God to redeem them from His curse. This mercy would take place in the person of Jesus Christ, as He lived, died, was buried, rose from the dead, and ascended back into Glory with the Father.

No human has ever lived a perfectly sinless life before God; as only God is perfect, it took the God-man Jesus Christ to live sinlessly in this world on our behalf.

God also required a perfect and blameless sacrifice for sins, someone who could indeed bear the eternal wrath of God that rebels had stored up. Jesus was that Chosen One, and as He gave Himself up on the cross to die, He fulfilled God’s requirement of justice. He died under the wrath of God and was buried with the sins of God’s elect, putting those sins to death.

Death could not hold the Son however, for on the third day He rose again to life, proving that the sacrifice was complete and accepted by the Father, and that for everyone who believes, a pardon will be given because of the work that Jesus Christ did.

“For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21

Meet Our Pastors

Kevin St John

Peter Van Waardhuizen

Our Beliefs

Gospel Focused

Though we have all sinned and fall short of God’s perfect standard, the Gospel teaches that Jesus lived the perfect life we cannot live, suffered the death we deserved, then rose victorious over death. When we turn from our sins and trust in Jesus, we are forgiven and granted eternal life.

Christ Centered

Christ is Lord over all, regardless of whether we recognize or deny His Lordship. We are completely dependent on Him and exalt Him as the only Saviour of mankind. His sovereign grace gives forgiveness, eternal life, purpose, and joy. In our preaching, worship, prayer, and actions, we are motivated by love for Jesus. He is our pursuit, and we desire to please Him in all things.

Biblical Preaching

Expository preaching draws out and explains the meaning of the text. This is important because God’s Word convicts, converts, builds up, and sanctifies God’s people. Expository preaching takes the main point of the passage and makes it the main point of the sermon, which ensures that God’s Word is preeminent over the doctrines of men.

Reformed

We stand with the protestant reformers in that the Bible is our ultimate authority, and that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, all to the glory of God alone. We hold to the historical truths found in the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, because we realize its value in keeping us Biblically based and inside orthodoxy.

Evangelical

Evangelical Christians have historically viewed the Bible as God’s authoritative word and have therefore placed an emphasis on the need to be born again, to have personal faith in the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, and to be obedient in proclaiming the Gospel.

Age-Integrated

The Bible teaches that the primary responsibility for instructing children falls on their parents. For this reason, we seek to equip and aid parents in this great task, never to replace them. Our services are family friendly, with children joining in worship.

Everyone Is Welcome

“All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will never cast out.”
John 6:37

Therefore, we look to show the compassion and grace that our Lord did to all who would seek to hear from our Saviour.

Christ in His incredible mercy, after ascending to the Father’s right hand in glory, sent the Holy Spirit to indwell all who would repent and believe at the preaching of the Gospel.

At that time, Christ formed His New Covenant church. He commands those who have been given new life to come together in worship of Him and to build one another up.

Our Lord continues to do the miraculous work of regeneration in the hearts of sinners by drawing them to Himself, applying the Gospel message to them, adopting them into His family, and compelling them to desire the covenant community that a local church
provides for their growth in faith.

Therefore we do not presume on the kindness of God, but welcome all who come acknowledging their sinfulness and seeking refuge in God together with us.