Statement of Faith for Churches

CarePortal is a Church and Community empowerment platform: it exists to mobilize Christian churches that affirm they are consistent with the CS Lewis Foundation Statement of Faith and/or the historic Apostles Creed, and the Community to care for vulnerable children and families in their own communities, together, stimulating life-changing relational connections in the process. The example and teachings of Jesus fuel everything we do. Churches active in CarePortal should affirm the following:

We accept the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the written Word of God. We believe in the divine inspiration, entire trustworthiness and final authority of the Bible in all matters of faith and practice.

We celebrate:

• The triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• The incarnate Son: Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man
• The goodness and beauty of the world, created and sustained by the Word
  of God’s power
• Salvation by grace received through faith in Jesus Christ, who alone,
  through His life, death and bodily resurrection, redeems us from sin and
  reconciles us unto God
• The essential unity of all believers, who together form one Church,
  diverse in form and expression, of which Christ is the Head
• The continuing ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who empowers the worship,
  service and witness of God’s people in all their activities
• The ultimate deliverance of the children of God and of all nature from
  the destructive consequences of the Fall

(Copied from the CS Lewis Foundation)

And/or the historic statements of The Apostles’ Creed.