Tier 1: Orthodoxy

What it means for a church

Pass/fail gate; failure flags the church as outside historic orthodoxy.

Topics in this tier

This is where each topic sits by default. A particular position on a topic, or a chosen lens, can place it differently.

• Atonement

  What Christ's death accomplished.

• Person of Christ

  The deity and humanity of Jesus Christ.

• Doctrine of God

  God's nature and attributes.

• Trinity

  One God in three persons.

• Creation & the fall

  Adam, the fall, and original sin.

• Final judgment

  The final state of the unrepentant.

• Prosperity & signs

  Prosperity teaching and claims about signs. Default tier 1/2.

• Scripture

  The nature and authority of the Bible.

• Gospel & justification

  How a sinner is made right with God.