Statement of Faith
5.01 Statement of Faith Requirement
All members, directors, officers and staff of the corporation shall subscribe to a written Statement of Faith. Adherence to this statement of faith is the absolute basis for involvement with, or employment by, They Need the Bible.​​
The statement of faith required for this organization is to be as follows:
We accept and believe in the Holy Bible as the complete written Word of God, preserved to us by the Holy Spirit for our salvation and instruction. We believe this Word to be infallible, completely without error, and the unchanging and final authority in all matters of faith and life.
We endorse no one version or revision of the Bible to the exclusion of others. We recommend all which are reverent and true translations.
We submit all religious teaching to the test of II John 7-11.
We believe that the Heavenly Father is pleased to receive all people who come to Him through repentance and faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, and wishes to welcome them into His eternal Family (John 3:16-17).
We believe that the entire universe was created by God; and that God made man sinless, in His own image.
We believe in a literal, 6-day creation. Colossians 1:16 says, "For by Him all things were created." Scripture attests to the fact that God miraculously created the world in six days. (Genesis 1, Exodus 20:11, Hebrews 1:10, Isaiah 42:5, Nehemiah 9:6, Acts 17:24) Jesus also says that Adam was there "in the beginning" (Mat 19:4, Mark 10:6), because of the words of Christ, we reject the many theories which suggest that creation and evolution are compatible.
We believe that there is one God and that there are eternally existent in the one divine essence three persons–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe that it is the responsibility of every believer to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ to every creature — that no one is exempt — that every believer must deny himself and take up his cross daily and lay down his life, if necessary, that the Gospel may be proclaimed in every land and in every tongue.
We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct and complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God (Genesis 1:26-27). We openly reject the modern redefinitions of human sexuality as being unbiblical, and inconsistent with the Word of God.
We believe that the office of the pastor is to be held by men only. The Order of Creation, together with the example of Christ and His apostles, as well as 1900 years of church history, teaches that women should not hold the pastoral office. I Corinthians 14:34-40, I Timothy 2:11-12. The theological foundation for Paul’s teaching on women and the pastoral office is the Order of Creation, based on Genesis 2-3 and further developed in I Timothy 2:13-14. These words should be seen as binding on the Church for all time, and not to be ignored or set aside. The pastoral office is to be filled by qualified men only.
We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single exclusive union as delineated in Scripture (Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:4-6). We openly reject the notion of “same-sex marriage”, as being unbiblical on the basis of 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Romans 1:26-27, and others.
We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Corinthians 6:18; 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4).
We believe that Jesus Christ is the only Savior and Lord who is “the way and the truth and the life” (NIV John 14:6), and that “salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven, given to men, by which we must be saved” (NIV Acts 4:12).
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of mission who provides the power for Christians to be witnesses to this new life in Jesus Christ everywhere in the world (Acts 1:8).
We believe that the basis for Christian fellowship is to be walking in the light. (1 John 1:7) The Bible promises the forgiveness of sin to all who confess their sin, and believe (1 John 1:9, Romans 10:9). Christian fellowship is between broken and sinful human beings, who are in daily need of God’s grace and forgiveness. We believe that God uses sinners, redeemed by His grace, as the vehicle for missions work.
We believe that encouraging the right, and correcting the wrong with those we work with is not an optional part of our mission. (2 Timothy 4:2)
We subscribe to the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1982).