About
After more than three years of editorial work, Nathaniel Bickford (General Editor), Lou Going (Contributing Editor), and Erik Reynolds (Contributing Editor) are excited to introduce to you a new confession of faith in the tradition of the historic confessions of faith of the Protestant Reformation. The Whitefield Declaration of Faith (WDF), named after the town where two of the editors have pastored, is a reformed, credo-baptist, conditionalist confession in the tradition of the Westminster Confession of Faith, Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (our starting document), and the London Baptist Confession of Faith. The goals of this confession of faith are:
- To provide a clear, thorough, and precise explanation of biblical Christianity from a reformed, credo-baptist, and conditionalist position;
- To offer a confession of faith that will foster unity, discipleship, and training among like-minded churches and church leaders; and
- To maintain faithfulness to the originals as we believe they are generally a correct summary of biblical truth.
It is our desire for this confession of faith to bring unity and clarity among churches, church officers, and individual Christians who are likeminded; as well as to showcase to all other brothers and sisters in Christ our common foundation on the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as communicated in God’s written Word, the Bible. And it is our hope that it will serve the church well in the years to come.
In the future we look forward to gradually introducing related resources to coincide with the WDF.
The completed work can be purchased on Amazon, and will be viewable soon, in its entirety, here at https://www.whitefielddeclaration.com/read
Editors
Nathaniel S. Bickford, General Editor
A graduate of the Berkshire Institute for Christians Studies, Lancaster Bible College, and Westminster Theological Seminary (MAR), where he has also taken classes in the ThM program, Nathaniel serves as the Teaching Elder of the Whitefield Christian Church in Whitefield, NH, where he lives with his wife, Kimberly, and three children.
Lou Going, Contributing Editor
Lou Going is a graduate from Berkshire Christian College and Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div, with Honors). He retired from pastoral ministry after 39 years, having served two Advent Christian churches. He was an adjunct faculty member at Berkshire Christian College and lecturer in systematic theology at the Berkshire Institute for Christian Studies. He presently serves as president of the Maranatha Advent Christian Conference. He lives in Lancaster, New Hampshire with his wife Cheryl.
Erik Reynolds, Contributing Editor
Erik Reynolds holds a DMin and MTS from Liberty University and studied at both Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Erik serves as the Senior Pastor of Oak Hill Bible Church in Oxford, MA and the Ministry Year Coordinator for the Ministry Training Institute. He lives and farms with his wife, Robin and two children in Central Massachusetts.