The Cardwell Family Confession of Faith

As a missionary family, it is important that the church we minister to, and for other churches that would like to partner with us, know what we believe.

In these days, when legalism, liberalism, modernism, pragmatism, and pelagianism seem to be just about everywhere you look, we believe that it is very important to define our statement of faith in no uncertain terms.  The second London Baptist Confession of 1689 is an excellent, Biblical confession of faith and basically expresses the truths we believe and hold dear.

The "Prince of Preachers" had this to say with regard to the 1689 London Baptist Confession, to which we would agree with a hearty, Amen:

"This ancient document is the most excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us.  It is not issued as an authoritative rule or code of faith, whereby you may be fettered, but as a means of edification in righteousness.  It is an excellent, though not inspired, expression of the teaching of those Holy Scriptures by which all confessions are to be measured.  We hold to the humbling truths of God's sovereign grace in the salvation of lost sinners.  Salvation is through Christ alone and by faith alone."  --Charles H. Spurgeon

This is what we believe concerning these doctrines:

Of the Holy Scriptures

Of God and the Holy Trinity

Of God's Decree

Of Creation

Of Divine Providence

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

Of God's Covenant

Of Christ the Mediator

Of Free Will

Of Effectual Calling

Of Justification

Of Adoption

Of Sanctification

Of Saving Faith

Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation

Of Good Works

Of the Perseverance of the Saints

Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation

Of the Law of God

Of the Gospel, and of the Extent of the Grace Thereof

Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience

Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day

Of Lawful Oaths and Vows

Of the Civil Magistrate

Of Marriage

Of the Church

Of the Communion of Saints

Of Baptism and the Lord's Supper

Of Baptism

Of the Lord's Supper

Of the State of Man After Death and of the Resurrection of the Dead

Of the Last Judgment

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