SOVEREIGN GRACE UNION
... to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20 VS 24
Aims, Objectives and Doctrinal Statement of Faith
- To further the proclamation and defense of the doctrines of Free and Sovereign Grace.
- To print and reprint literature expounding such doctrines.
- To encourage publishers to issue such literature and to help its circulation by purchase and distribution to Clergy, Ministers, Christian Workers, Theological Students, Members of Parliament and others.
- To hold Conferences and Meetings to re-affirm the old truths in these days of apostasy and declension.
- To circulate tracts, pamphlets and books, maintaining the Doctrines of Grace, which may be presented to the Union for that purpose, and to print and circulate such tracts, etc., for which any person, or Society, undertakes to provide the funds.
- To raise a testimony against the evils of Priestcraft, Popery, Ritualism, Arminianism, Rationalism, Liberalism and Higher Criticism.
DOCTRINAL BASIS
The Holy Scriptures
The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, and as preserved in the Hebrew Masoretic Text and the Greek Textus Receptus, as the inspired and infallible and inerrant Word of God, and as the sole, supreme, and all-sufficient authority in every matter of Christian faith and practice. We affirm the doctrine of Divine Preservation of Scripture.
The Trinity
One living and true God, Sovereign in creation, providence and redemption, subsisting in three Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – the same in substance, and equal in power and glory.
The Lord Jesus Christ
The Eternal Sonship and the essential, absolute, and eternal Deity, and true and sinless humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ; His virgin birth, death, and burial; His physical resurrection and ascension into heaven, and His coming again in power and glory.
The Holy Spirit
The Personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit, through Whom the sinner is born again to saving repentance and faith, and by Whom the saints are sanctified through the truth.
The Fall of Man
The fall of mankind in Adam, by which they have totally lost their original righteousness and holiness, and have come under the righteous condemnation of God.
Unconditional Election
The personal and unconditional election in Christ of a multitude which no man can number unto everlasting salvation, out of God's pure grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works in them.
Particular Redemption
The personal and eternal redemption from all sin and the penal consequence thereof, of all God's elect, by the substitutionary sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. We reject Amyraldism and all theological systems of universalism and hypothetical universalism. We affirm that the Lord Jesus Christ made atonement for the elect only, to redeem them alone, this is known as limited atonement or particular redemption.
Effectual Calling
The effectual calling of all the elect by the irresistible grace of God.
Justification
The justification of sinners by faith alone, through the atoning death and resurrection and imputed righteousness of Christ.
Final Perseverance
The final perseverance in the state of grace of all those who have been elected by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and regenerated by the Holy Spirit, so that they shall never perish but have eternal life.
In reference to the above, consult the the Westminster Confession, the Savoy Declaration, the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith and the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England.