THE SALVATION ARMY'S ARTICLES OF WAR
HAVING received with all my heart the salvation offered to me by the tender mercy of Jehovah, I do here and now publicly acknowledge God to be my Father and King, Jesus Christ to be my Saviour, and the Holy Spirit to be my Guide, Comforter, and Strength; and that I will, by His help, love, serve, worship, and obey this glorious God through time and through eternity,
BELIEVING solemnly that the Salvation Army has been raised up by God, and is sustained and directed by Him, I do here declare my full determination, by God's help, to be a true Soldier of the Army till I die.
I am thoroughly convinced of the truth of the Army's
teaching.
I believe that repentance towards God, faith in our Lord
Jesus Christ, and conversion by the Holy Spirit are
necessary to salvation, and that all men may be saved.
I believe that we are saved by grace, through faith in our
Lord Jesus Christ, and he that believeth hath the witness of
it in himself. I have got it. Thank God!
I believe that the Scriptures were given by inspiration of
God, and that they teach that not only does continuance in
the favour of God depend upon continued faith in and
obedience to Christ, but that it is possible for those who
have been truly converted to fall away and be eternally
lost.
I believe that it is the privilege of all God's people to be
wholly sanctified, and that 'their whole spirit and soul and
body' may 'be preserved blameless unto the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ,' That is to say, I believe that after
conversion there remain in the heart of the believer
inclinations to evil, or roots of bitterness, which, unless
overpowered by divine grace, produce actual sin; but these
evil tendencies can be entirely taken away by the Spirit of
God, and the whole heart, thus cleansed from anything
contrary to the will of God, or entirely sanctified, will
then produce the fruit of the Spirit only. And I believe
that persons thus entirely sanctified may, by the power of
God, be kept unblameable and unreprovable before Him.
I believe in the immortality of the soul; in the
resurrection of the body; in the general judgment at the end
of the world; in the eternal happiness of the righteous; and
in the everlasting punishment of the wicked.