Signatories
We come from Protestant congregations across our beloved state.
- We are men serving as ministers in active churches in Iowa.
- We preach the Bible as the very Word of God, living and active, and sufficient for all things pertaining to life and godliness.
- We administer baptism and the Lord’s Table according to the Bible’s direction.
- We affirm the requirement for local church membership, and we practice church discipline.
- We affirm biblical and historical Christianity as stated in the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed.
- We affirm that the Bible is inerrant, infallible, and sufficient for all areas of life and that it is declared by God to be the ethical standard for all mankind for all of history.
- We affirm that Jesus Christ has all authority on earth and in heaven. Following his ways brings societal blessings and disobeying his ways brings societal curses.
We affirm these doctrines as necessary for salvation and a righteous society:
- Sola Scriptura — Scripture is mankind's only ultimate authority.
- Solus Christus — We are saved by Christ alone.
- Sola Fide — We are saved through faith alone.
- Sola Gratia — We are saved by grace alone.
- Sola Deo Gloria — All our works, thoughts, and emotions, both individually and collectively, are to be for the ultimate end of God’s glory alone.