Salt & Light
REFORMED CHURCH
Easter Sunday
Join us Easter Sunday, April 20th, for our First Worship Service at 10am!
Location: Port Orange Elementary School
402 Dunlawton Ave, Port Orange, FL 32127Time: 10AM
Worship With Us
Sunday Evenings at 5pm at the Watkins Home.
Contact Pastor Watkins for details.
“Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
Matthew 5:16
Salt and Light, a new church plant of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the Daytona Beach area, exists to glorify and enjoy God through ministries of Worship, Discipleship, and Evangelism. We are currently meeting for Bible studies on Sunday nights. We have a solid group forming and are hoping to hold our first worship service on Easter Sunday!
Worship is the chief reason for which the church exists. It is what we will be doing in heaven and what we have the great privilege of doing together now. Our worship will be shaped by Scripture and Reformed theology.
Discipleship (teaching, shepherding, community) are vital to the life of the Christian and we intend for these ministries to flourish in the life of our church.
Evangelism is the means by which God is glorified through the conversion of the lost into the Kingdom of God. The name “Salt and Light” underscores the ministry of the church—one not simply of ‘inreach’ but also outreach. Like a lighthouse at the edge of a turbulent sea, the church is called to be that light that points people to the only truly safe harbor in this dark world—Jesus Christ, the Light of the World.
Who we are
Biblical: we believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are sufficient for our spiritual needs, clear to understand, and the final authority for how we ought to live in this life (2 Tim 3:16-17). Therefore we are convinced that the Scriptures must be studied. Above all, though, we believe that the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, points us to our gracious and merciful Savior Jesus Christ (Luke 24:27). It is for this reason that we love studying the Bible.
Confessional: we hold to the creeds and confessions of the Ancient and Reformed Church, as we believe they are an accurate and faithful summary of the teachings of Scripture (2 Thes 2:15). As a congregation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, we hold to the Westminster Standards, which includes the Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. Our creedal and confessional commitments unite us with the church universal, that is, saints down through the ages and around the world (Jude 1:3).
Presbyterian: we are governed by a body of elders called by God and elected by the congregation. Jesus, our Chief Shepherd, has appointed under-shepherds to care for His flock until He returns (Eph 4:11-14; 1 Pet 5:1-4). Following the pattern of the Apostolic Church, we are united to other churches in a supportive and collaborative manner (Acts 15:1-4). Our elders serve the denomination regionally through presbyteries and nationally through the annual General Assembly.
What we believe
Join Us
We hope you will consider visiting us or contacting us for any further information. The Lord has already begun a good thing in our midst. We would love for you to consider joining and helping us to spread the light of the gospel in the greater Daytona Beach area.
Church Planter
Eric Watkins is an Evangelist for the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, planting a new church in Daytona Beach, FL and assisting the Presbytery of the Midwest in their church planting efforts. He also serves as the Director for the Center for Missions and Evangelism at Mid-America Reformed Seminary. He has been a minister in the OPC since 2001 and has planted two churches. His degrees include an A.A., B.S., M.Div. and ThM. In 2016 he completed his PhD from the Theological University in Kampen, the Netherlands. His dissertation was on preaching Christ from the Old Testament in a postmodern context, and was published as The Drama of Preaching: Participating With God in the History of Redemption by Wipf and Stock.
Pastor Eric has taught at Reformation Bible College in Sanford, FL, Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL, Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Jacksonville, FL, Mid-America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, IN, Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA, Westminster Seminary California in Escondido, CA, and Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, MI.
He is happily married to Heather; the two of them have four beautiful, adopted children. Eric’s pastimes include surfing, beach volleyball and playing guitar.
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