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Confession of Faith
In one sense therefore it is a public confession, for by it you assure your fellow believers that yours is the same faith as is theirs. But more particularly it represents a promise to confess throughout your life. It is in no sense a promise that has once and for all been completed. Unfortunately i
Public confession is and should remain the important matter. Yet these stipulations, this contractual relationship may not be ignored. It must be remembered that the affirmative answer given at the time of confession is the same as that which binds the confessor to these stipulations of the church.
Confession of faith is a privilege of the highest order, a privilege of grace. Besides being a privilege, confession of faith is also a responsibility. It is not only an honor to be able to confess our faith publicly, but it is also our duty before God. There are those who question or deny this resp
According to this passage there is an antithesis between making this confession and not making it. Making it ours we own Jesus. If we do not make this confession, we disown Him. (Cp. v. 66-67). So we believe that we may confess. Confession is the fruit of faith. “With the heart man believeth; and w
Confession of faith is not even the ability to articulate these doctrines and vigorously to defend these doctrines. Confession of faith also involves the determination to live a life in harmony with that confession. When we make confession of faith, we promise before God and His Church that we will
Obviously, the confession of sin is to remind us of our dependence on Christ, and of our repeated shameful conduct, but the method in which we conduct our confession can add or detract immeasurably from the spiritual comfort derived from our confession. The confession of sin is not to inform God of
Hence they make public confession of that faith. This usually takes place in the latter teens or early twenties, but a set age there is not. And we ought not to make confession because everyone else of our age is, nor because of pressures brought by those near us. For a confession of faith to be tru
“Make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers.” Ezra 10:11 Public confession of your faith must take place between your baptism and your approach to the holy supper. That confession is a unique and important event because it represents the time when you rise in the assembly of believers an