The Unity Creed: A Modern Call to Christian Unity

A Creed for a Divided Church

By 2020, the fractures within Christianity were hard to ignore. Denominations divided. Congregations split. Political pressure, racial tension, and doctrinal confusion were driving Christians further apart. Into this moment came the Unity Creed — not a compromise of doctrine, but a call to the unity that already exists in Christ.

What the Unity Creed Affirms

The Unity Creed opens: “We as the global Church, throughout history and geography, confess together our shared faith in the one God…” It moves through classic Christian affirmations — one God, one Lord Jesus Christ, one Spirit — while emphasizing what believers hold in common across denominational boundaries.

The Unity Accord

The Unity Creed was produced alongside the Unity Accord, a broader statement on the basis of Christian fellowship. Together they call the church to recognize its essential unity in Christ even amid real differences in tradition, practice, and secondary doctrine.

Not Uniformity But Unity

The Unity Creed does not ask denominations to abandon their convictions or blur real theological differences. It calls Christians to hold those differences within a broader acknowledgment of their common Lord, common Scripture, and common hope. Unity, not uniformity, is the goal.

A Creed for Today

Every generation needs to express the faith in ways that speak to its moment. The Unity Creed joins the long line of creedal documents in the church’s history by speaking to a specific crisis — the crisis of division — with the ancient resources of the faith.

Read the Unity Creed

Explore the full text of the Unity Creed at UnityCreed.org.