The ACDP believes that the government exists for two very specific purposes:

to regulate society as a ruler of men in the attitude of a servant to God;

to do this to the benefit of all who submit under it (Romans 13:4).

The following three foundational principals run as a common thread throughout all policy and cannot be divorced from it:

All authority and law originates from God, therefore obedience brings blessing to a nation and disobedience brings cursing (Duet. 28);

The family is the basic building block, which God has instituted to build strong righteous nations;

Decentralisation of power prevents the rise of orders such as dictatorships, nazism and communism.

The ACDP believes in the separation between Church (religious institutions) and State. The purpose of the State is not to promote any specific organisation or group.

Nevertheless it is understood that God and State must not be separated. It is not only the right of godly men and women to be involved in State structures and to be employed by the State, but it is their duty to do so, where God has ordained.