About Us

Who We Are

We are a Reformed Baptist Church serving the Chicagoland area. Planted in Itasca in 1973, Christian Fellowship Church is a community of Christians who have covenanted together in order to glorify God, herald the Gospel, and encourage one another as we see the Day draw near.


What does it mean to be Reformed Baptist? Reformed Baptist churches are churches who subscribe to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. We do not belong to a specific denomination, rather, the words “Reformed Baptist” sum up what we believe as a church. One way to explain what it means to be Reformed Baptist is to show how we fit into these 5 larger theological categories: Christian, Protestant, Evangelical, Reformed, and Baptist.


Scroll down to read more about how these five categories fit together to form our identity as a church!


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Our History

Reformed Baptist?

What is a Reformed Baptist? We are a church in the Christian, Protestant, Evangelical, Reformed, and Baptists traditions.

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Our Confession
  • We Are Christian

    First and foremost, we are Christians. We believe in the faith once for all delivered to the saints. We hold to the ancient, ecumenical creeds that summarize the basic beliefs of all orthodox Christians across all time, such as: The Apostle’s Creed, The Nicene Creed, and The Chalcedonian Definition.

  • We are Protestant

    We follow in the footsteps of the Protestant Reformers, who went back to the source of Scripture as the only infallible rule of faith, seeking to reform the church back into conformity with God’s revealed Word.


    The main tenants of the Reformation are summarized in the “5 Solas.”


    We are saved:

    by GRACE ALONE

    through FAITH ALONE

    in CHRIST ALONE

    according to SCRIPTURE ALONE

    for the GLORY OF GOD ALONE

  • We Are Evangelical

    Though the term “evangelical” has been redefined in more political terms in recent years, we still claim its original theological meaning. Evangelicalism, as a theological position, includes at least these three things:


    First - The belief that every individual must personally place their faith in Christ and be born again to be saved.


    Second - The belief that it is the responsibility of every born-again believer to share the good news of Jesus to the lost.


    Third - The belief in the Bible as the inerrant, highest authority in the believer’s life.


    We happily affirm these three positions as the consequence of true Christian, Protestant faith.

  • We Are Reformed

    The designation “Reformed” means that we follow not just the Protestant 5 Solas of the Reformation, but also the other theological conclusions that flow out of the work of the original reformers. Chief among these are the Doctrines of Grace, which affirm God’s total sovereignty and responsibility for man’s salvation, while recognizing that man is still responsible for his own rebellion. Another major Reformed distinctive is Covenant Theology, the belief that the Old and New Testaments comprise one continuous story of God saving his one people through the one Covenant of Grace, and that all of Scripture proclaims Christ.

  • We Are Baptist

    Within Reformed Protestant Evangelical Christianity, we are Baptist. We believe that the Lord Jesus instituted two ordinances for his churches to practice until he comes again: the Lord’s Supper and baptism. We believe that baptism should be administered only to those who profess faith in Christ. We are an independent church, holding to an Elder-led, congregation-governed form of church polity.