The Whitefield Declaration of Faith

The Whitefield Declaration of Faith is a new confession of faith seeking to bring unity and clarity among those churches, church officers, and any Christians who consider themselves to be reformed, credo-baptist, and conditionalist; as well as to showcase to all other brothers and sisters in Christ our common foundation on the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as communicated in God’s written Word, the Bible. It is new, not in the sense of being written fully from scratch, but rather in the sense that faithful men have taken the work of those who came before us and revised it for the use of the church today. The Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order — a reformed congregationalist revision of the Westminster Confession by Thomas Goodwin, John Owen, and others — was the initial starting point. It was then compared with the Westminster and London Baptist confessions, and at times also the reformed confessions of continental Europe. The goals of this confession of faith are: • To provide a clear, thorough, and precise explanation of biblical Christianity from a reformed and conditionalist position; • To offer a confession of faith that will foster unity, discipleship, and training among like-minded churches and church leaders; and • To maintain faithfulness to the originals as we believe they are generally a correct summary of biblical truth.