Faith

All the churches and organisations that have placed information on this Web site firmly believe the truth revealed in the Bible that salvation is entirely the work of a gracious and loving God towards undeserving, indeed hell-deserving, sinners. They acknowledge that men and women are incapable of choosing to obey God's commands unless God himself works in their hearts to give new life, spiritual life, as a gift. They believe that the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, containing all that is necessary for men and women to know in order to understand their need for salvation, how that salvation is to be found, and how to live for him both now and into eternity.

They also recognise the need to be obedient to the command of the Lord Jesus to "make disciples of all nations" through preaching and promoting the good news that the Son of God has taken upon himself the punishment deserved by guilty sinners, in order that they might receive forgiveness and the gift of his righteousness. God has ordained that his people will be saved and that it is primarily through the preaching of this gospel that they will be brought to trust in Christ for salvation.

Reformed Evangelical Christians hold to what are commonly called the Doctrines of Grace. These are often written down as a series of five points, and you can find out more about these doctrines by following the relevant link below. But within the Reformed world there are a variety of churches, each with perhaps their own emphases on secondary matters, for example on church government or baptism. The theological positions of these different churches have been set down in various formal confessions and statements of faith, which you will find in the list below. Each link will take you to a copy of that particular document, and as some of these are rather long, the file size is given next to each link to alert you to those which you might like to view or download at a time when the Net is at its quietest!

If you know of a Reformed Evangelical confession or statement of faith that is not mentioned here, please let us know by e-mailing us at faith@grace.org.uk

The Doctrines of Grace Also known as the Five Points of Calvinism (6,998 bytes)

The Apostles' Creed (2,006 bytes)

The Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (2,026 bytes)

The Canons of the Council of Orange (16,399 bytes)

The Anathemas of the Second Council of Constantinople (9,443 bytes)

Luther's 95 Theses (16,979 bytes)

refcon.exe (613,389 bytes)

This is a self-ectracting zipped Windows Help File containing various Ancient Creeds and Historic Reformed Confessions, compiled and made freely available by Daric Bossman. It contains the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon, the Belgic Confession of Faith, the Canons of Dort, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Larger Catechism, the Shorter Catechism, the Children's Catechism, the Savoy Declaration, the London Confession of Baptist Faith, the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, the Lausanne Covenant, the Manila Manifesto, and the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.

The Savoy Declaration of 1658

This Confession is divided into a Table of Contents and three further files, each containing 11 chapters. The largest of these has a file size of 31,851 bytes. This on-line version was prepared by Adrian Tribe.

The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith

This Confession is divided into a Table of Contents, 32 chapters and a list of signatories. The average file size is 6,150 bytes, with the largest being just 16,128 bytes. The original on-line version of this document can be found at Mr. Bill's Quiet Place.

The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith in Modern English

This modern english version was prepared by Andrew Kerkham and is hosted on the creeds.net web site, linked to with permission.

Benjamin Keach's Catechism of 1677 (37,465 bytes)

The original on-line version of this Catechism can be found at Grace Chapel's Fellowship Hall, (Spokane, WA).

Charles H. Spurgeon's Catechism of 1855 (26,203 bytes)

The original on-line version of this Catechism can also be found at Grace Chapel's Fellowship Hall, (Spokane, WA).

A Small Children's Catechism (4,222 bytes)

Christian Basics

A simple course introducing the Christian faith, produced by Grace Evangelical Church, Westerleigh, South Gloucestershire, UK and linked to with permission.