Essential Tenets - What We Believe
The truth matters. Our faith has content. Our love for Christ brings with it a mission and desire to tell others the good news. The true gospel, the Word of God, is the power of salvation and it matters deeply that we get it right.
The foundational truths of our faith that “everyone knows” are being directly attacked and rejected, as well as being incrementally eroded, by a post-modern theology that values ambiguity in faith and ethical practices.
Faced with a confusing array of voices from culture and even from the broader Christian community, our Session has adopted Essential Tenets to be absolutely clear about the essential truths of our faith. We can always graciously agree to disagree on non-essentials, but now, more than ever, we need to stand firmly in love and not waver on the truth of the essentials.
The Essential Tenets document distills the 300 pages of the Book of Confessions to a helpful summary—six essentials and seven distinctives. It was developed by the San Diego Presbytery’s Committee on Preparation for Ministry and adopted by our Session in November, 2005.
The Session has also adopted the three confessional and doctrinal statements of the Confessing Church Movement.
