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Abbey Baptist Church | Reading Berkshire[[@Headword:C24]]
What we believeOn the first or second Sunday of the year, the church renews its Covenant with the Lord and with each other. The Covenant is an affirmation of what we believe. The Words of the Covenant We, who desire to walk together in the fear of the Lord, do, through the assistance of His Holy Spirit, desire wholeheartedly to profess our deep and serious repentance for all our sins, humbly to implore the free and full forgiveness of them all through the blood of His dear Son, our only Saviour, Jesus Christ, and sincerely to give up ourselves to the Lord and to each other by the Will of God, that He may be our God and we His people through the everlasting Covenant of His Free Grace. In this we hope to be accepted through His Son, Jesus Christ, whom we take to be our High Priest to justify us, our Prophet to teach us, and our King to rule over us, that we may serve Him in our day and generation. Being fully satisfied that a gathered company of believers, who by Divine Grace give up themselves to the Lord and to each other, to walk together as Saints in Love,
in Peace, and in Constant Worship of Christ is a Gospel Church of Divine Institution, we do therefore in the Name and by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, solemnly join ourselves together in a holy union and fellowship, and, professing his strength, humbly submit to the Discipline of the Gospel together with all Holy Duties required of a people in such a Spiritual Relation. We resolve:- 1. To walk in holiness, godliness and mutual love, so that our fellowship will be honouring to God, lovely to others of the Lord’s people, comforting to ourselves, and convincing to the World. 2. To provoke one another to love and good works, to pray for one another, for the glory and increase of this Church and for the presence of God within it. 3. To bear one another’s burdens, to bear with one another’s failings with much tenderness, and to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bonds of Peace. 4. To meet together on the Lord’s day and at all other times, seasons and places as the Lord shall give us opportunity and ability, only to serve and glorify Him and to edify and build up one another in our most Holy Faith. 5. To endeavour always to promote and encourage a holy, regular and gifted ministry to go in and out before us as the Shepherd before the flock, together with such other offices as are by Christ appointed in His church. To these and all other Gospel Duties we humbly submit, purposing to perform them not in our own strength, but in the power and strength of our ever Blessed God, through His Son, Christ Jesus whose we are and whom we desire for ever to serve. This revised form of the Covenant was authorised by the Church on December 15th, 1949, to take the place of revised form dated January 27th, 1938, and is to be interpreted and understood in the terms of the full Covenant, drawn up by the Church, then meeting in Hosier's Lane in 1779. An amendment to paragraph 3 was authorised by the Church on October 23rd, 1979. Abbey Chapel | Tavistock Devon[[@Headword:C25]]
What we BelieveBelow you will find our statement of belief and doctrine. This was put together when we first moved to the Abbey Chapel in 1962 revised in 2012. STATEMENT OF DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE. The Divine inspiration authority and sufficiency of the Holy Bible which teach among other things: 1. The Unity of the Godhead with the distinction of persons in that unity namely the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit to whom equal honour is due. 2. That
(a) the Son of God truly became man being begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. (b) His death was a sacrifice to God and a full payment for the pardon of sin. (c) He was raised from the dead. (d) He ascended to the right hand of God and is now the all-sufficient High Priest of His people. (e) He will come again to receive them to Himself and to set up His Kingdom. 3. That in consequence of the fall of Adam man became “lost”, “without strength” and at “enmity against God”. 4. The need of the Holy Spirit’s work in regeneration and being made holy. 5. That
(a) the sinner is made just before God, by faith alone. (b) every justified one is also born of God. (c) such new birth results in holiness of life and good works. 6. That
(a) at death the spirit of man does not cease to exist or become unconscious. (b) the dead will be raised either to life or to condemnation and that the blessing of the righteous and the punishment of the unrighteous will be eternal. 7. The preservation of spiritual liberty by means of the autonomy of the local Church, which is to be governed under Christ its Head by its own elders free from the authority of any other Church, federation of churches, or any body or union whatsoever. 8. The observances of believers baptism by immersion on personal confession of faith, and the commemoration of the Lord’s death in the breaking of bread normally taking place on a Sunday. 9. The reception at the Lord’s Table of all believers sound in faith and godly in life. 10. The conducting of meetings for worship under the guidance of the Holy Spirit with opportunity for the exercise in the assembly of all true gifts for edification subject to the Lordship of Christ. Directory: cfs-filesystemfile.ashx -> key -> CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> Various Messages from Samuel Logan Brengle CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> Eternity! Eternity CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> Annotated Bibliography CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> [The first seventeen verses of Matthew consists of Jesus' family tree CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> The life and times — of — benjamin franklin, — by — joseph franklin, and CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> The flying inn CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> Abraham, or the Obedience of Faith CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files -> Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies Download 2.08 Mb. Share with your friends:
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