THE BIBLICAL WITNESSES
THE BIBLICAL WITNESS
Paragraph 5 Basis of Union
5. THE BIBLICAL WITNESS
The Uniting Church acknowledges that the Church has received the books of the Old and New Testaments as unique prophetic and apostolic testimony, in which it hears the Word of God and by which its faith and obedience are nourished and regulated. When the Church preaches Jesus Christ, its message is controlled by the Biblical witnesses. The Word of God on whom salvation depends is to be heard and known from Scripture appropriated in the worshipping and witnessing life of the Church. The Uniting Church lays upon its members the serious duty of reading the Scriptures, commits its ministers to preach from these and to administer the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as effective signs of the Gospel set forth in the Scriptures.
Rev Anne Hibbard
2017
Bible Reading Challenge to read the whole of the bible systematically each day with different biblical genre.
The Biblical Witnesses
Paragraph 5 in the Basis of Union
The Uniting Church acknowledges that the Church has received the books of the Old and New Testaments
as unique prophetic and apostolic testimony,
in which it hears the Word of God
and by which its faith and obedience are nourished
and regulated.
Peter Bentley
24th May 2017
The next few years are really the crux for the future of the UCA, and whether it will focus on the real DNA of the Uniting Church that came into being with The Basis of Union, or that of an esoteric church that is increasingly oriented towards providing good works as a social service agency.
When the Church preaches Jesus Christ, its message is controlled by the Biblical witnesses.
The Word of God on whom salvation depends
is to be heard and known from Scripture appropriated in the worshipping and witnessing life of the Church.
The Uniting
Church lays upon its members the serious duty of reading the Scriptures,
and to administer the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as effective signs of the Gospel set forth in the Scriptures.
commits its ministers to preach from these