The members of the Society wholeheartedly accept the revelation of God given in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and confess the faith as therein set forth and as summarized in such historic statements of the Christian Church as the Apostles and Nicene Creeds. The members agree that the following doctrines are crucial to the understanding and proclamation of the Gospel and to practical Christian living and are the essential doctrines of the Christian faith, namely:

(a) The sovereignty and grace of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in Creation, providence, revelation, redemption and final judgment;

(b) The divine inspiration of Holy Scripture and its consequent entire trustworthiness and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;

(c) The universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the Fall, making man subject to God's wrath and condemnation;

(d) The substitutionary sacrifice of the incarnate Son of God and the solo ground for redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin;

(e) The justification of the sinner by the grace of God through faith alone in Christ crucified and risen from the dead;

(f) The illuminating, regenerating, indwelling and sanctifying work of God the Holy Spirit in the believer;

(g) The unity and common priesthood of all true believers, who together form the one universal Church, the Body of which Christ is the Head;

(h) The expectation of the personal, visible, imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ.