Beliefs
What We Believe
Instead of just giving you a cut and paste list, we wanted to provide specific and articulated documents to what we believe and affirm. We also do this, because we find great value in being a confessional church, meaning we are tethered to a bigger picture of what the Church truly is and what we should believe both in expanse, globally beyond our local expression, and in history, beyond our modern time. You can check them out in the links below:
Creeds
We didn't invent our faith, and we're not interested in reinventing it. When we say what we believe, we're joining our voice to Christians who've been saying the same things for nearly two thousand years. The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed aren't relics, they're the church's earliest attempts to say plainly what the apostles taught: who God is, what Jesus did, and what it means to belong to Him. We stand in that same line. Our faith isn't new, and it isn't ours alone, it's the faith once delivered to the saints, and we're grateful to still be telling it.
The Apostle’s Creed
The Nicene Creed
Confessions
Creeds tell us the bones of the faith… who God is, what Jesus did. Confessions go further, filling in how we read the whole of Scripture together as a church. We hold to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, written by believers who wrestled deeply with God's Word and wanted their children, and churches like ours, centuries later to inherit something carefully tested, not casually assembled. It shapes how we understand the gospel, the church, and the ordinances Christ gave us. Alongside it, we affirm the Lausanne Covenant, which reminds us we're not just heirs of a particular tradition, but part of a global family of believers committed to the same gospel and the same mission, in every nation. Together, these confessions keep us anchored to our past, and to the church around the world.
1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
Sacred Mission Church’s addendum to the 1689 LBC
The Lausanne Covenant Statement of Faith
We also have dedicated documents that assist in bringing clarity to specific topics. You can view a list of “Position Docs” through the button below.