The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention is committed to the task of Biblical evangelism, church planting and discipleship on the continent of North America. In its pursuit of these God-ordained tasks, it is also committed to upholding in all that it does with evangelical/Biblical theology of salvation as interpreted by the Baptist Faith and Message (1963). The North American Mission Board also unapologetically acknowledges its adherence in biblical inerrancy as articulated and explicated in the 1978 and 1982 Chicago Statements on Biblical Inerrancy and Hermeneutics as well as the Baptist Faith and Message (Article I). It would also be encouraged that the Convention adopted statements on the high view of Scripture developed by the 1987 Peace Committee and the 1994 Report on the Theological Study Committee be kept in mind.

    As the Word of God encourages those who name the name of Christ and who believe in Him sincerely and singularly for their salvation, to share together in the work of the Gospel, the North American Mission Board will do so, when appropriate. Any cooperation in evangelism and missions with non-Southern Baptist entities, however, will be done only with groups who are self-described as evangelical: that is they adhere to a conversionist theology that all people must be born again by faith in Christ alone in order to enter the Kingdom of God; and that they uphold the Bible alone as the source of God's truth, and that salvation is by faith alone due to God's grace alone having Christ alone as it's object. It is acknowledged by the North American Mission Board that genuine Biblical unity is built solely upon the affirmation and advocation of Biblical truth. Even temporary, non-binding cooperation must be exercised only where truth is confessed and held in sincerity.