A statement of faith is a tool for clarity and unity. It summarizes the core truths we affirm and helps identify those who share a common understanding of the Gospel. These general statements provide cohesion of thought among those who minister together and offer a framework for discerning agreement or meaningful differences on foundational matters of faith.

We believe the Bible is verbally and plenarily inspired by God, inerrant, infallible, and sufficient on all matters it addresses, and the supreme and final authority in faith and practice. (Rom 15:1, 1 Cor 2:13; 10:11, 2 Tim 3:16-17, 2 Pet 1:19-20, 3:16)

We believe in the one Triune God who exists eternally in the three persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Gen 1.1, 1 John 5:7)

We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned, resulting in death and separation from God. All people inherit a sin nature and are alienated from God under His just wrath. Only through Christ can anyone be reconciled to God. (Gen 1:27; Rom 3:10-19; 5:12-21; Eph 2:1-3)

We believe in a grammatical historical approach to Genesis and reject any attempt to reconcile the creation accounts with Darwinism. (Gen 1-3, Matt 19:4-6)

We believe God established significant differences between men and women and reflected those differences most directly in the institutions of marriage, family, and the church. (Gen 2:18, Eph 5:22-31)

We believe Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, fully man and fully God, who was born of the virgin, lived a sinless life, voluntarily died on the cross of Calvary as our representative, vicarious substitutionary sacrifice for sin, physically rose from the dead on the third day following, and has ascended to Heaven to the right hand of the Father as the High Priest and Advocate of believers. We believe that those who believe on Him and repent of their sin will be justified and forgiven. (Luke 1:26-35, 2:40, John 1:1-2,14, 20:24-31, Rom 3:24-25, 5:8, 1 Cor 15:3-4, 20-22, Phil 2:5-8, 1 Tim 2:5-6, Heb 7:25, 1 Peter 1:3-5; 2:24, 1 John 2:1-2)

We believe salvation is a purposeful work of God whereby God through His gracious power draws a sinner unto himself and extends to him the unmerited gift of salvation. (John 6:44, 12:32, Eph 2:1-9, Rom 8:29-30)

We believe in biblical justice and objective truth and reject social justice teachings that undermine objective truth, inspire division in the body of Christ, promote injustice, or corrupt the Gospel by mixing it with law. (Col 2:8, 2 Pet 1:16-21, Gal 3:28, Ex 23:1-9, Rom 3:23, Gal 1:9, Ex 20:15,17, 2 Thess 3:10)

We believe all who repent of their sin and place their faith in Christ are indwelt by the Holy Spirit who convicts of sin, illuminates the Scripture, and empowers for godly living including Christian service and bearing witness to the Gospel of Christ. We reject that a Christian’s identity can include sinful desires or actions. (John 14:26, 16:8, 1 John 5:6, Rom. 8:14, 1 Cor 6:11)

We believe in the glorious hope of the imminent, bodily, physical, personal return of Christ Jesus in the future. (Matt 16:27, Rev 22:12)

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men: the redeemed to eternal life in the presence of God in Heaven, and the unredeemed to judgment and everlasting condemnation and punishment in hell separated from God eternally. (Matt 25:46; Heb 9:27; Rev 21:8)

The Fellowship retains categories for absolute right and wrong, while also maintaining categories for allowable differences. It does not compromise on doctrinal essentials, like the spiritual lostness of the human race, the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, substitutionary atonement, the bodily resurrection, the second coming, or the inerrancy of Scripture. 

At the same time, it acknowledges room for difference in areas of doctrine, like cessationism, calvinism, eschatology, epistemology, covenantalism, politics and patriarchy, and even on some moral issues, such as those relating to music, dress, speech, movies, boundaries, culture, and tradition. The Truth Fellowship retains a robust category for allowable differences.

In areas of disagreement, we are committed to handling one another with love, humility, and patience. We do not believe that disagreement on secondary doctrine necessitates division. As Paul exhorted the divided Corinthian church, “I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment” (1 Corinthians 1:10). Our unity is not based on uniformity, but on the shared foundation of the cross of Christ. “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18).

We follow Christ together, even as we acknowledge that “not many of you were wise according to worldly standards” (1 Corinthians 1:26), and that “God chose what is low and despised in the world… so that no human being might boast in the presence of God” (1 Corinthians 1:28–29). We are not trying to build our own reputations, but to submit ourselves to the wisdom of God, which often runs counter to the wisdom of the age.

This does not mean we do not speak clearly about our differences. We believe in speaking the truth. But we also believe in speaking it in love (Ephesians 4:15). We hold in tension a commitment to truth and a commitment to one another. We aim to model what Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 2:2: “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” That shared allegiance is the ground of our unity. Our disagreements, therefore, are handled in the context of that shared loyalty and are not opportunities for pride, partisanship, or division, but occasions to sharpen one another as iron sharpens iron.