We Are the ADF Church & Ministry Alliance

Founded by more than 30 ministry leaders in 1994, Alliance Defending Freedom was established to protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, parental rights, and God’s design for marriage.

ADF has advocated for these protections on behalf of churches, artists, students, Christian schools and ministries, and the unborn.

After serving for more than two decades in the courts, ADF saw a trend emerging: churches and ministries were facing increasing hostility from the government and culture but didn’t have access to attorneys who could help them protect their religious freedom.

We established the ADF Church & Ministry Alliance program in 2017 to help churches and ministries navigate these issues. Since its launch, the program has successfully supported thousands of churches and ministries, advocating for their rights and providing them the confidence to continue living out their missions and transforming culture with the truth.

Alliance Defending Freedom Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

• We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
• We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
• We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy to only occur within that relationship.
• We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
• We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
• We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him and that, in exchange, He promises us abundant life.