REFORMATION WITNESSES
Paragraph 10 Basis of Union
10. REFORMATION WITNESSES
The Uniting Church continues to learn of the teaching of the Holy Scriptures in the obedience and freedom of faith, and in the power of the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, from the witness of the Reformers as expressed in various ways in the Scots Confession of Faith (1560), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647), and the Savoy Declaration (1658). In like manner the Uniting Church will listen to the preaching of John Wesley in his Forty-Four Sermons (1793). It will commit its ministers and instructors to study these statements, so that the congregation of Christ’ people may again and again be reminded of the grace which justifies them through faith, of the centrality of the person and work of Christ the justifier, and of the need for a constant appeal to Holy Scripture.
Reformation
Articles
September 2007
Rev Rod James
Throughout the nearly 4000 years since Abraham, God’s people have been prone to veering away from the will, the word and the way of God. This veering away is called ‘apostasy’. Whenever apostasy has occurred God has raised up confessors who have boldly and bravely confessed the will, word and way of the Lord. In each case God’s people have, in retrospect repented of that apostasy and affirmed the confession of the confessors.
Articles on the Reformation
4 videos that speak about the faith of the Reformation. South Australia ACC May 2017
1. The Righteousness of Faith #1 Rev Deane Meatheringham
2. What does the Scots Confession say? Rev David Kowalick
3. What does the Heidelberg Catechism say? Andrew Klynsmith
4. The Righteousness of Faith #2 Rev Deane Meatheringham
Video Series on the Reformation
REFORMATION WITNESSES
IN THE BASIS OF UNION
The Uniting Church continues to learn
of the teaching of the Holy Scriptures
in the obedience and freedom of faith,
and in the POWER
of the promised gift
of the Holy Spirit,
from the witness of the Reformers
as expressed in various ways
In the Scots Confession of Faith (1560),
The Heidelberg Catechism (1563),
The Westminster Confession of Faith (1647),
and the Savoy Declaration (1658).
In like manner
the Uniting Church will listen
to the preaching of John Wesley
in his Forty-Four Sermons (1793).
It will commit
its ministers and instructors
to study these statements,
So that the congregation of Christ’s people
may again and again
be reminded
of the grace
which justifies them through faith,
Of the centrality
of the person and work
I
Of Christ the Justifier
And of the need
for a constant appeal
to Holy Scripture.