FAQs – Who We Are

  1. Mission Statement
  2. Statement of Faith
  3. Statement of Faith (with Scripture)
  4. Seven Promises
  5. Our Core Values

 

  1. Mission Statement

    The mission of Promise Keepers is to issue a clarion catalytic call to the Body of Christ to hear and obey the Word of God in the power of the Holy Spirit.

    In a world of negotiable values, confused identities, and distorted priorities, Promise Keepers is directing the hearts of men, women, young adults and entire families from all denominational, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds back to the Word of God.  It is in the absolute truth of God’s Word that we discover our identity as a Child of God, our direction for godly family leadership, and our mandate for unity in the Body of Christ.

    Among people in the Church today, the rate of Biblical illiteracy is growing at an alarming rate. As a result, the Body of Christ is becoming more and more impotent as a Godly influencer of our society and our world.

    Clearly, the Church has an unprecedented opportunity to seize this moment and make a difference for Jesus Christ. We believe that God wants to use Promise Keepers as a spark in His hand to ignite a revolution of the Word of God evidenced by seeing the entire Body of Christ powerfully united to share with the poor, stand with Jewish believers, and transform the world.

  2. Statement of Faith

    We affirm the historic Christian faith and proclaim the life-transforming Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Gospel is good news, the very best news anyone can hear.

    1. The one living God, who eternally exists in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, loves everyone.

    2. God uniquely revealed and inspired the Bible, so that it alone is God’s Word written, hence the Holy Scriptures are the only inerrant authority for what we believe about God’s moral law, salvation from sin and how we should live.

    3. Since the disbelief and disobedience of Adam and Eve, all humans have failed to obey God’s two major laws summed up by the Lord Jesus Christ. We have failed to love God with our whole being and we have failed to love our neighbors as ourselves. People have become slaves to selfishness and are alienated from God and one another.

    4. Jesus’ death in our place reconciles us to God. His atoning sacrifice provided redemption from the power of sin, forgiveness for our guilt, and reconciliation to Himself and others. We become acceptable to God, or justified, not by works, but by God’s grace alone, through faith in Christ alone. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the cross to provide for our redemption, bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven, present ministry of intercession for us, and His return to earth in power and glory.

    5. The Holy Spirit draws sinners to repentance, belief in the Gospel and trust in the risen Christ of whom it speaks. The Holy Spirit then assures believers of salvation, gives them gifts for servant ministries, and empowers them to meet the needs of the lost, the poor, and the oppressed.

    6. All believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are members of His one international, multi-ethnic and transcultural body called the universal church. Its unity is displayed when we reach beyond racial and denominational lines to demonstrate the Gospel’s reconciling power.

    7. Our primary calling is to communicate the Gospel to everyone in our generation and nurture disciples. Nothing must divert us from carrying out our Lord’s Great Commission until His glorious return to reign in righteousness.

  3. Statement of Faith (with Scripture)

    Preamble

    The Gospel is good news, the very best news anyone can hear. Children can understand it; it is so profound that the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

    The Gospel announces that God loved the world so profoundly that He gave His Son to die on the cross for lost sinners. Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sins. Christ’s resurrection makes ours possible. Whoever believes in Christ will not perish but have everlasting life.[1] Jesus Christ is the only Savior, the one and only mediator between God and humanity, the only hope of the world.[2]

    We confess the historic Christian faith and proclaim the life-transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ.[3]

    We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the cross to provide for our redemption, bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven, present ministry of intercession for us, and His return to earth in power and glory.

    1. The God of the Bible is the one and only God.

      God is a living and active Spirit, eternal and free, perfect in justice, goodness and love, totally self-sufficient, all-powerful, and all knowing. He rules the world and is worthy to receive all glory, honor, worship, and obedience. All things and people are dependent upon Him as their creator and sustainer. God made humans distinct from everything else by creating them in His image. Every man and woman, as an image-bearer of God, has dignity and is worthy of respect, care, and protection.

      The Bible teaches that the one and only God is three persons within the unity of the divine being. God is the Father who sent His only Son to save the lost. The Holy Spirit is sent to apply the work of Christ to us. Because God exists forever in this three-personal life, the church speaks of Him as the Holy Trinity.

    2. The Bible is God’s written Word.

      The Bible is the revealed Word of God, given in and through the words of human writers whom the Holy Spirit inspired and guided.[4] The Bible is truthful in all that it affirms and without error as originally given by God. The Bible tells us what we need to know about God, His law, His salvation, and how we should live. The Bible is the only infallible rule of faith and life. It alone is the final authority establishing all Christian doctrine.

    3. Sin has broken our fellowship with God.

      Although created righteous, our first parents, Adam and Eve, fell into sin. As a result of their disobedience, all humans are born moral rebels.[5] We have inherited a sinful nature that leads us to think and act as if we were God. We do not have it in us to stop breaking God’s moral standards. Indeed, God sees us as guilty, helpless, hopeless slaves of sin and alienated from Himself and one another. The just penalty of our sin is death.[6]

    4. God so loved the world that He gave His Son to die for lost and perishing sinners.[7]

      Salvation is deliverance from the penalty of past sin, the power of present sin, and finally, when life here ends, from the very presence of sin and all its ill effects. Christ came in human flesh to rescue sinners.[8] Having modeled true godliness throughout His perfect life, Jesus died in our place, suffered the penalty we deserved, and satisfied God’s justice for us. By His sacrificial substitution for us, He redeemed us from our slavery to sin and reconciled us to the Father, making peace between the Father and ourselves. By His bodily resurrection, Christ defeated death and supremely demonstrated His deity.[9]

      Our salvation is due solely to grace, which means God’s undeserved love to those who deserve the exact opposite: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”[10] Salvation is a free gift of God, not of any works we do. We are justified by faith alone in Christ alone. The moment we believe, Christ’s righteousness is accounted or imputed to us.[11] On this basis our sins are forgiven, and we ourselves are given a righteous person’s status in God’s sight, sinners though we still are. We have been rescued from eternal misery apart from God and given a new life of joy, peace, and thanksgiving in Christ.

    5. God the Holy Spirit regenerates and empowers believers to live the Christian life.

      The Holy Spirit not only gives believers a new nature but also an assurance of their salvation.[12] The Holy Spirit empowers believers to live the Christian life and calls us to holy living.[13] Spiritual power is very much needed because the Christian life is a constant conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil. The Holy Spirit helps the believer to practice Christ-like virtues that Paul in Galatians 5:22-23 calls the Spirit’s fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

      Followers of Christ also receive from the Holy Spirit the particular spiritual gifts they need for their servant ministries to others.[14] His power accompanies their presentations of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit attests to the truth and authority of the Scriptures, and believers use the Scriptures to test and stand against the deceiving spirits led by the Evil One.[15]

      Our Lord calls us to love the Lord our God with all our strength, soul, and mind, and our neighbors as ourselves.[16] In our citizenship in God’s kingdom, our faith will appear barren if we do not show love and humility by caring for the poor, sick, widows, orphans, and outcasts, by comforting the sorrowing, by helping the needy, and by shielding the oppressed from the oppressor.[17]

    6. By their union with Christ, the head of the universal church, all believers are united to one another.

      The Holy Spirit unites every sinner reconciled to God by faith in Christ to all other believers in one body. The universal church is an international, multi-ethnic, and transcultural family, the household of faith. Christ is the sole head of the church, also referred to in Scripture as the body and bride of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit.[18] Local churches are, in varying degrees, visible manifestations of the one universal church. They exist where the Word of God and the Gospel are faithfully preached and baptism and the Lord’s Supper are faithfully administered. Our Lord prayed that believers would be one.[19] Our unity will be manifested as the Faithful reach beyond racial and denominational lines to demonstrate the reconciling power of Christ.[20]

    7. The Church’s primary task in every generation is to proclaim the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

      Jesus Christ commissioned His disciples to take His Gospel to every man and woman in the world.[21] Every Christian and every local church is entrusted with the privilege and responsibility of proclaiming this glorious Gospel. Nothing must divert the church from its task of compassionately communicating the Gospel. So it must be till Christ comes again, not only for the Final Judgment, but to bring His church into the final glory. And so we say with great anticipation, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”

    References

    [1] John 3:16; 5:24
    [2] Acts 4:12; 1Timothy 2:5
    [3] The Gospel includes more components than are here expressed,
    but not less. For a more detailed discussion of the Gospel please see:
    “The Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Evangelical Celebration.”
    [4] 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21
    [5] Isaiah 53:6; Romans 3:23
    [6] Romans 6:23
    [7] John 3:16
    [8] John 1:1, 14, 18; 1 John 4:1-3
    [9] 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
    [10] Ephesians 2:8-9
    [11] Romans 4:3-5; 23-24
    [12] John 3:3-8; Romans 8:1-2, 11, 16; Ephesians 1:13-14
    [13] 1 Thessalonians 4:7; Ephesians 3:16
    [14] 1 Corinthians 12:4-12
    [15] Ephesians 6:10-14; 1 Timothy 4:1
    [16] Matthew 22:37-40
    [17] James 2:15-20
    [18] 1 Corinthians 1:2; 12:12-13; Ephesians 2:8-10, 19; 4:3-6
    [19] John 17:20-22
    [20] 1 Corinthians 12:24-27; Galatians 6:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; John 17:23
    [21] Matthew 28:18-20

    All Scriptural references are from the New International Version of the Bible.

  4. Seven Promises

    PROMISE 1

    A Promise Keeper is committed to honoring Jesus Christ through worship, prayer and obedience to God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit.

    PROMISE 2

    A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help him keep his promises.

    PROMISE 3

    A Promise Keeper is committed to practicing spiritual, moral, ethical, and sexual purity.

    PROMISE 4

    A Promise Keeper is committed to building strong marriages and families through love, protection and biblical values.

    PROMISE 5

    A Promise Keeper is committed to supporting the mission of his church by honoring and praying for his pastor, and by actively giving his time and resources.

    PROMISE 6

    A Promise Keeper is committed to reaching beyond any racial and denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of biblical unity.

    PROMISE 7

    A Promise Keeper is committed to influencing his world, being obedient to the Great Commandment (see Mark 12:30-31) and the Great Commission (see Matthew 28:19-20).

  5. Our Core Values

    Promise Keepers is a Christ-centered organization dedicated to motivating men to influence their world through a relationship with Jesus Christ. The key to Promise Keepers are individual men keeping their promises in the context of their family, church and community. Promise Keepers is dedicated to calling men into the ongoing process of godliness. When we reach men, we reach families.

    Five distinct Promise Keepers events challenge five different audiences to join this revolution of the Word of God that will lead to individual, family, church, and city transformation.

    Millions of have participated since 1990 when PK first began. Click here for our history.
       

    Our Vision

    “Men transformed world-wide.“

    Our Mission

    “We Believe God wants Promise Keepers to be a spark to help ignite a worldwide transformation, calling men to follow Jesus Christ.”

    Our Statement of Faith

    Promise Keepers is not a membership organization. Men and women of God are welcome to participate in our ministries and join our mailing lists; but are only promise keepers to the degree that they individually live out their testimonies among those who know them.