Dr. D. S. Piper’s
Doctrinal Statement

Statement of Doctrine:

HE BELIEVES AND UPHOLDS: the Trinity; the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, and bodily resurrection; the blood atonement; salvation by grace alone; eternal security of the believer; the autonomous [independent, self-governing] local church; the great commission; the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost; the divinely plenary [i.e., word-for-word] verbally inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God; the divinely preserved Word of God, the Reformation Text (Textus-Receptus) and the King James Bible AV 1611.

Statement of Practice:

HE IS: fundamental; baptistic; pre-Trib; pre-millennial; pro-soulwinning (e.g., door-to-door, as in Acts 20:20-21); pro-missions; distinctly non-Ruckman (click HERE for details); zealously non-ecumenical; devotedly non-charismatic in both doctrine and practice; loyal to music standards preserving “the beauty of holiness”; debt-free (by conviction); pro-homeschooling (for over eighteen years); pro-courtship (betrothal); and pro-family.
 

As someone once wisely prayed:¹⁵

“O God when I am wrong, make me easy to change,
and when I am right make me easy to live with!”