Our Confession of Faith - Introduction

A CONFESSION OF FAITH is an accurate and concise summary statement of what we believe the Bible teaches on specific subjects important to the Christian faith. (Lk 1:1) ‘…those things most surely believed among us.'

Dr. Bob Martin, A Modern Exposition (p.9) – ‘Sadly we live in a non-credal, and even anti-credal age marked by… relativism, anti-authoritarianism and historical isolationism. Many professing Christians regard creeds and confessions as man-made traditions, the precepts of men, mere religious opinions…' (p.19) ‘A church without a confession of faith has the theological and ecclesiastical equivalent of AIDS, with no immunity against the infectious winds of false doctrine.'

B.H. Carroll, founder of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Fort Worth, quoted in A Modern Exposition (p.16) – ‘A church with little creed is a church with little life. The more divine doctrines a church can agree on, the greater its power, and the wider its usefulness. The fewer its articles of faith, the fewer its bonds of union and compactness. The modern cry, “Less creed more liberty,” is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish, and means less unity and less morality, and it means more heresy. Definitive truth does not create heresy – it only exposes and corrects. Shut off the creed and the Christian world would fill up with heresy unsuspected and uncorrected, but none the less deadly.'

Note: The Bible alone (not any confession) is the only true authority in all matters of faith and practice. The Bible is God's Word—the Confession is what men have written about what they believe God's Word says.