BELIEFS

The Seminary’s founding congregations, board members, and administration are members of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), a growing denomination with churches and ministries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

The Seminary and these churches affirm the

  • Apostles Creed (2nd c.)

  • Nicene Creed (A.D. 381)

  • Definition of Chalcedon (A.D. 451)

  • A Westminster Creed (compiled from the 17th c. Westminster Shorter Catechism)

  • An Evangelical Statement (adapted from the NAE).

Together, we hold to the evangelical tenets of historic Protestantism expressed in at least one of the following confessional documents of the Reformation:

  1. Westminster Confession of Faith (1647)

  2. American Westminster Confession of Faith (1788)

  3. Three Forms of Unity (Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, and Canons of the Synod at Dort)

  4. Belgic Confession (1561)

  5. Heidelberg Catechism

  6. London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

  7. Savoy Declaration (1658)

  8. Reformed Evangelical Confession

  9. Second Helvetic Confession, and/or

  10. The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Christian Religion.