Guiding & Guarding Our Mission

November 10th 2020 will be remembered as a historic day for our family of churches because, on that day, the Sovereign Grace Churches Council of Elders unanimously voted to approve our new Statement of Faith.

From one angle, this action was unremarkable, as our churches have from the start defined themselves theologically. By God’s grace, we have avoided many a theological pitfall, and our gospel-centrality - SGC was “gospel-centered” long before that phrase was fashionable - has remained steadfast. 

Even still, as the culmination of a careful, seven-year process of theological formulation, discussion, revision, and review, the Sovereign Grace Churches Council of Elders ratified a new Statement of Faith that will function confessionally for every ordained pastor in our denomination. Every ordained pastor right around the world... And that’s a big deal!!

Jeff Purswell, the Dean of our Pastors College, says this about our Statement of Faith,

“The new Statement of Faith is precious to us. It is an affirming, clarifying, and mission-strengthening gift. Its very existence declares that the pastors and churches we serve stand united in, and devoted to, God’s revelation in Holy Scripture. Its affirmations of great biblical doctrines root us in historic Christian orthodoxy and the faith once for all delivered to the saints. Its careful distinctions draw vital boundaries to guard against heresies ancient and contemporary. Its distinctive elements express specific convictions our churches hold dear. Its doxological tone captures the goal of all biblical truth—to lead us into a deeper knowledge of the Triune God, that we might more genuinely worship him, all to the praise of his glory.”

How true this is! And such qualities only clarify and bolster the mission of Sovereign Grace Churches around the world. In headline, this Statement of Faith gives our global work the necessary guidance and guarding we need in this great mission, helping us to ensure faithful ministry, by God’s grace, for many generations to come.

To mark this historic moment in Sovereign Grace, we have established a dedicated website for our Statement of Faith: webelieve.sovereigngrace.com, which you can find here. This website is your "one-stop-shop" for the Sovereign Grace Churches Statement of Faith. Please take a good look at it.

May this Statement of Faith protect our family of churches, strengthen our theological unity, charge our global mission, and deepen our worship of God, all around the world.