Lusaka Baptist Church is committed to the whole Bible as the inspired and inerrant word of God; the preaching of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour, as the only means for salvation; and the historic and apostolic Christian faith as expressed in the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith.

The church was formed on July 2, 1960, with forty-two people as foundation members; forty of these transferring from Ndola Baptist Church—the mother church—and two from Central Baptist Church, Salisbury. These forty-two made the following declaration:

"Resolved that we, whose names are hereunto appended, being assembled or represented before God our Father in a meeting convened in the vestries of the LUSAKA BAPTIST CHURCH on Saturday afternoon, July 2nd 1960, do solemnly dedicate ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer, and to one another as brethren and sisters in Him. We declare ourselves to be a church of God formed after the New Testament pattern, and composed of those who, upon profession of repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, have been buried with Him through baptism and raised to newness of life. Believing that we are thus an habitation of God in the Spirit, we will seek by the help of God to walk worthily of our profession, to live with each other, and with all who may here­after be added to us, in unity and brotherly love; and we pledge ourselves to observe the ordinances given to us by our Lord, viz: the Baptism of Believers and the Lord's Supper; to maintain the preaching of His word; and to labour together, under the direction and power of the Holy Spirit, to do all that in us lies for the salvation of our fellow men."