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I heard that the PK Statement of Faith was changed to make it acceptable to more people. Is this true?

No. Promise Keepers' Statement of Faith (written in 1991) represents a core theology of historic doctrines of the Church. We feel compelled to call believers together according only to our highest common denominators - faith in Christ and the truth of God's Word. Promise Keepers believes that true biblical unity must be based on the historically essential truths of Christianity.

In the original version, tenet number five read: "We believe that man was created in the image of God, but because of sin, was alienated from God. That alienation can be removed only by accepting through faith alone God's gift of salvation which was made possible by Christ's death."

This tenet was revised in 1996, due to a simple desire on the part of Promise Keepers' Board of Directors to improve and clarify the commonly understood Biblical terms of salvation. The current version of tenet number five reads: "We believe that man was created in the image of God, but because of sin, was alienated from God. Only through faith, trusting in Christ alone for salvation which was made possible by his death and resurrection, can that alienation be removed."

The revision has not altered the meaning of this key principle in any way. Our objective was to bring more clarity to this important fundamental truth of Christianity. The revision also expresses Ephesians 2: 8-9 more accurately than the old version, thus we feel we are being more true to Scripture. Promise Keepers believes that salvation is a free gift from God and cannot be earned by any human effort.

Promise Keepers remains committed to clarifying the message of the ministry whenever needed.