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I believe a church. I do not believe in a church. I do not rely upon the church for my salvation, since God is the God of my salvation in Jesus Christ. With the fathers of the past I believe in God, the Father Almighty, and in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, and in the Holy Spirit as the Spir
As the city of God, it was the community that God had formed for his worship and praise and in the midst of which he himself lived with his holy people. The New Testament church is this city.
schism in the church, whether caused by false doctrine or by the ungodly behavior of those who would disregard the decency and good order God requires of us, is an attack upon Christ's bride that calls forth his judgment, upon those who would violate his bride. and brings forth his fervent defe
This is a church chosen. Election governs the church. We have the means and the power of the gathering and building of the church. It's Jesus Christ by His Spirit and Word. We have the responsibility in the following questions of being members in the church and what it means with a relationship
Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen. Let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them, or declare us things for to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods. Yea, do evil, or
For ye were as sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls. In connection with those verses that I mentioned, I want also to read question and answer 54 of the Heidelberg Catechism. That's on page 12 in the back of the Psalter. Question and answer 54. What
Yet, through faith in Jesus Christ, we have been declared forgiven. We have been declared justified. And therefore, the holiness of the church is, first of all, a legal standing. We may stand before the throne of God without spot or wrinkle in the work. of our beloved Savior Jesus Christ. But tha
So instead, I was able to work ahead, prepare a sermon for you, and be able to preach it at home next Sunday. But Lord's Day 21, questions and answers 54 through 56. What believest thou concerning the Holy Catholic Church of Christ, that the Son of God, from the beginning to the end of the worl
And out of it there is no salvation. that no person of whatever state or condition he may be ought to withdraw himself to live in a separate state from it, but that all men are in duty bound to join and unite themselves with it, maintaining the unity of the church submitting themselves to the d