Creeds and Confessions:
We believe that the core of our faith is summarized in the major creeds of the early church. These brief, concise statements of the faith clearly spell out foundational Christian truths that we hold dear. We embrace the historic, orthodox understanding of Christian doctrine affirmed in the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and the Chalcedon Confession.
Having affirmed the historic creeds, we also identify broadly with the major Reformed confessions and catechisms of the 16th and 17th centuries including the Westminster Confession, The Heidelberg Catechism, and the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689). We understand ourselves to be broadly in agreement with these Reformed confessions and catechisms, while maintaining Baptist distinctives. Our theology is best described as historic, reformed, and baptistic.
In summary of those historic, reformed, and Baptist beliefs, we have also chosen to covenant around a more specific body of doctrine. Therefore, we affirm as our primary confession of faith a slightly modified version of the Abstract of Principles (1858). This historic Baptist confession lays out in a series of short articles many of the doctrines that we hold dear as a fellowship of believers.
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