1. There is one, eternal God, Creator and Lord of the universe who, in the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, both governs all things according to God’s will and is accomplishing God’s purpose in the world and in the church.

2. The sixty-six books of Holy Scripture in its entirety are inspired by God’s Spirit through human authors and constitutes the revelation of God’s truth to humanity. It is wholly true and trustworthy in all that it affirms. Whatever the Bible, rightly interpreted, is found to teach, we are bound to believe and obey. It is our supreme authority in every matter of belief and conduct.

3. God created all human beings male and female, in God’s own likeness and therefore all men and women have inherent value and equality before God. God created marriage as a gift in which one man and one woman have the opportunity to model Christ’s sacrificial love for the church in their own sacrificial love towards one another.

4. Adam, created in the image of God, rebelled against God and distorted that image. Through Adam’s rebellion sin entered the created order. Human sin and guilt since the fall have rendered us subject to God’s wrath and condemnation and have resulted in our alienation from God’s life, suppression of God’s truth, and hostility to God’s law. The supreme need of all people is to be reconciled to God under whose just and holy wrath we stand; the only hope of humanity is the undeserved love of this same God, who alone can rescue us and restore us to Himself. God’s love desires all to come to repentance and to be reconciled rather than condemned.

5. Salvation from the guilt, penalty, and all other consequences of sin has been achieved solely through the work of Jesus Christ – his perfect obedience, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection and exaltation as Lord. Jesus alone is truly God and truly human, the only mediator between God and humanity. There is salvation through no other person, creed, process or power. Each sinner is justified before God and reconciled to God only by divine grace appropriated by faith in Jesus alone.

6. The work of the Holy Spirit is necessary for the individual’s new birth and growth to maturity. The Holy Spirit is the down payment of the believer’s future inheritance. He empowers and indwells the church, enabling its constant renewal in truth, wisdom, faith, holiness, love, ministry, power and mission.

7. Those who have been saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus and have been renewed by the power of the Holy Spirit enter the kingdom of God and delight in the promises of God: the forgiveness of sins, the inward transformation that awakens a desire to glorify, trust, and obey God, and the hope of eternal life with Jesus. Good works are an indispensable evidence of saving grace. Followers of Jesus should neither withdraw into seclusion from the world, nor become indistinguishable from it. Rather, as citizens of the Kingdom we are to do good to the city: we are to love our neighbor as ourselves and care for the marginalized unto the glory of God. The Kingdom of God is an invasive power that plunders Satan’s dark kingdom and regenerates and renovates through repentance and faith the lives of individuals rescued from that kingdom. It inevitably establishes a new community of human life together under God.

8. There is one, holy, universal and apostolic church, which is the Body of Christ, and to which all true believers belong. The church’s calling is to worship God forever and to serve God in the world. The Church serves as a sign of God’s future new world when its members live rightly in worship to God and in service of one another and their neighbors; rather than for a self-focus.

9. As the Father sent the Son into the world, so the Lord Jesus Christ sends his church to participate in God’s mission by words and works. The church is called: to make Christ known; to proclaim God’s truth and the gospel of God’s grace; to make disciples among all nations; to exhibit God’s character through compassionate care for the needy; to demonstrate the reality of God’s kingdom through creative and sacrificial living, the community of love, the quest for righteousness, justice and peace, and the care of God’s creation.

10. As the Lord Jesus ascended to his Father, so he will return personally, visibly and in glory. He will raise the dead and bring salvation and judgment to final completion. God will then fully establish his Kingdom and finish the new creation – a new heaven and a new earth from which all evil and evildoers, all suffering and death, will be excluded; and in which God will be glorified forever.

Adapted from the Langham Partnership and Gospel Coalition Confessional Statement.