Meets at 10 am Sundays, 728 E. 55th St., Savannah GA 31404
Our Mission
Savannah is a city of tensions: black and white, rich and poor, conservative and liberal, historic and creative. These tensions, and the conflict they cause, make this city the glorious ruin that it is. There are really only two ways to live in the midst of this conflict: you can pick your tribe and go to war with the Other; or, you can live in a story that honors, and yet encompasses, the tensions of life in the Garden of Good and Evil. At Christ the King- Savannah, we believe that the good news of Jesus is that story. So, as an Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, our mission is simple:
Love God. Love Neighbor. Love Savannah.
Our Staff
Rev. Soren Kornegay
Soren and his wife Emma grew up together in Columbia, SC. She attended Appalachian State University, while he attended the University of South Carolina. They married in 2008, while Soren worked for Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at USC. After attending Covenant Theological Seminary, they moved to Savannah to work for RUF at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Over the course of the next five years in the city, they had three houses, two sons (Malcolm the eldest, Theo the youngest), and hundreds of college students from all over the world eating meals in their home and hearing about Jesus with RUF during the week. They love Savannah, not just because its a beautiful city, but because it is the city in which they find themselves.
Our Heritage
THE ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (ARP)
The ARP grew out of historical moments that shape the way we engage with our world even today.
By "Reformed," we trace our heritage to a group called the Scottish Covenanters of the 1600s, who believed what Abraham Kuyper would express so succinctly three centuries later: "There is not a single square inch in all of creation over which Christ does not proclaim 'this is mine.'" Jesus loves, not just our souls, but his whole world (John 3:16), and calls his people to extend his loving rule over all of it. Truly, "the hands of the healer are the hands of the King" (JRR Tolkein). The Reformed take the Westminster Confession of Faith as the clearest summary of what the Bible teaches.
The "Associate" Reformed grew in part out of what is called the Marrow Controversy in the 1700s in Scotland. The controversy revolved around the question, "How much transformation is necessary in someone's life before we can say that God loves them?" For the Associate Reformed, the answer was clear: none is necessary. God's love in Jesus, offered freely, regardless of cultural or spiritual differences, is the only thing that does transform! Jesus loves us, long before we ever love him (Ephesians 2:5).
Presbyterian simply means that we are governed, not by one person (which can lead to a cult of personality), or by group consensus (which can lead to paralysis), but by a group of elders.
To find out more about the history of our denomination, visit the ARP website here.