Our Witness to the Essentials of Our Faith

We the members and congregations of the Biblical Presbyterian Network joyfully and publicly proclaim ourselves to be adherents of the Reformed faith that is contained in the Bible. We believe that our faith is best summarized by the historic Reformed creeds. While we maintain the right to differ with these confessional systems on minor points of application and interpretation, we covenant together to hold ourselves accountable to the essentials of the Reformed faith contained in these confessions. For the benefit of our witness to the church and our denomination, we summarize our essential beliefs in the following way:

 †   The Faith of the Universal Church—We affirm the ecumenical creeds of the church, such as the Nicene Creed and Apostles’ Creed that fix us into the universal, catholic church of which our Reformed churches are a part.

†   The Five Solas of the Reformation—Scripture Alone, Grace Alone, Faith Alone, Christ Alone and To God Alone be the Glory shape our understanding of the gospel.

†   The Essential Doctrines of Reformed Faith—Salvation is wholly of God and is purely grace from first to last, without any merit in us. That God is completely sovereign and preserves all his elect in faith throughout this life and eternally. That the cross is God’s final answer for human sin as a substitutionary atonement for his people. We affirm a biblical system of polity: with godly, qualified men and women cooperating as pastors, elders and deacons for the government of the church according to the Word of God.

†   The Marks of the True Church—These are the sound preaching of the Word, the right use of the sacraments and proper church discipline. We affirm Baptism for believers and their children, and the Lord’s Supper for all who trust in Christ alone for their salvation.

Our Covenant Together

With the essentials of our faith confessed in the above statement, we the members of the Biblical Presbyterian Network covenant together, in the grace of our sovereign God, to hold ourselves accountable to the following principles:

†   We will not stand alone. We covenant to work alongside each other and to labor alongside our fellow Christians who hold to the biblical faith in our effort to confront fallen culture and equip struggling churches.
 

†   We are fallible and admit to this openly and without reservation. We will work for our sanctification and ongoing growth in the ways of Jesus. We do not profess to be perfected or to be without sin but we confess ourselves to be saved sinners, with nothing good in us but that which God’s saving grace has bestowed upon us.
 

†   We will speak the truth from Scripture and the confessions, no matter the consequences.
 

†   We will seek to live a lifestyle that is rooted in gospel simplicity and that shows where our true treasure lies, be willing to joyfully “let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also” when our witness demands it.
 

†   In all our dealings with each other and the world around us, we covenant with each other to hold each other accountable to act with integrity, honesty and "to render no one evil for evil and do what is honorable in the sight of all” (Romans 12:17).