The Anglican Mission of Southern Maryland (“AMOSM”) is formed for purpose of worshiping Almighty God in accordance with the following Principles, which the Members affirm.  AMOSM was founded in the evangelical tradition within the Anglican Communion and members do accept, witness, and proclaim their affirmation of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.  Members do further affirm:

We believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him.

We confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and to be the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.

We confess Baptism and the Supper of the Lord to be Sacraments ordained by Christ Himself in the Gospel, and thus to be ministered with unfailing use of His words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him.

We confess the godly historic Episcopate as an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore as integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.

We confess as proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed.

We receive The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.

We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1562, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.

We believe Holy Matrimony intended to be a lifelong and exclusive relationship celebrated only between a man and a woman as a reflection of the relationship between Christ and His Bride, the Church, and which is the only appropriate context for sexual relations, for the reasons reaffirmed by the 1998 Lambeth Conference Resolution 1.10.

In all these things, we are determined by the help of God to hold and maintain, as the Anglican Way has received them, the doctrine, discipline and worship of Christ.

Members hold these Principles as binding and beyond compromise.  Those who teach and preach in behalf of the corporation are to do so in accordance with Scripture as interpreted by the Formularies listed above.  Obedient to these Principles, Members pledge themselves to the perpetuation of a worldwide community of orthodox Anglicans and do pray for the witness and support of the faithful throughout the world.