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The Three Forms of Unity

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The Three Forms of Unity DESCRIPTION The Three Forms of Unity: The Heidelberg Catechism The Belgic Confession The Canons of Dordrecht And the Ecumenical Creeds: The Apostles’ Creed The Nicene Creed The Athanasian Creed The Creed of Chalcedon The Three Forms of Unity can also be read on-li

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My heart desires thy peace (2): The Three Forms of Unity

Brian Huizinga·2023-01-15

The one faith (pure doctrine of the Scriptures) that serves as the foundation upon which Jesus Christ unites His church is expressed in the "Three Forms of Unity." Reformed churches find the answer to the question, "What is the truth of God's Word?" in the collective teaching of the three confession

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Catechism: Learning to Hold Fast the Form of Sound Words

Richard Smit·1998-09-01

In the fourth place, the Three Forms of Unity are also the necessary foundation of not only our unity denominationally, but also our unity as a federation of young people’s societies. That principle is stated in Article II of the Constitution of our Federation. The form of sound words is the like pr

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Keeping the Unity of the Spirit

James Slopsema·1990-08-01

The unity of the Spirit is the essential unity that exists in the church among believers as a result of the inner working of the Spirit. From a natural point of view there is great diversity in the church. God gathers His church from every tribe, tongue, and nation. Consequently, the church is compo

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The Multiformity of the Church (1)

Cornelius Hanko·1957-03-01

We learn in the first place that the Church considered as a unity and as catholic is an object of faith. That Church cannot be seen nor perceived with the senses, but is revealed to us in the Scriptures, and as the content of revelation it can be maintained and believed only by faith. Secondly, the

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The Covenant Question

L. Doezema·1950-05-01

We as Reformed churches have further adopted the three forms of unity as an expression of our faith to which we voluntarily bind ourselves as an expression of our personal faith, that which we also believe to be necessary unto salvation. The confessions have derivative authority. So far these confes

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What Next? (2)

George Ophoff·1929-07-20

The closer union of all believers is the thing that all of us, by God's grace, should be attempting to effect. The phrase, pluriformity of the church (universal), is a well-known one. It signifies that the one body of Christ assumes a multiplicity of forms in its differing creeds and church formatio

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PRTJ Vol. 31, No. 1 (November 1997)

1997-11-01

Biblical Church Unity Only then will the body of Christ know perfect unity within herself and with her Head, and what is true now in principle will be true also in experience. But even so, we may, we should, experience something of that heavenly unity here upon earth. We have been born again. God ha

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The Definition of Unity

Tom Bergman·1996-03-01

Unity, (uni-ti). noun 1. State of harmony, of being in agreement 2. Having achieved a dimension of oneness and concord 3. State in which the church, all individuals being members of one body, live together as brothers and sisters in the Lord 4. Good and pleasant when brethren dwell together 5. Synon

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Motivation For Ecumenicalism

Gise Vanbaren·1964-12-01

We note, first of all, that most explicit teaching about unity comes to us in the form of a prayer. That means that the unity to which we are called is unity which is received and not unity which is fabricated by ourselves. The gathering of the scattered children of God is God's own work in which we