Leader: We believe in one GodALL: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.Leader: He is the true and living God,ALL: Worthy to receive glory and honor and power.Leader: He created all things,ALL: And by his will they existed and were created. Leader: We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ;ALL: He is the image of the invisible God, …
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against …
For by grace we have been saved through faith. And this is not our own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Based …
We are the body of Christ and individually members of it.For as in one body we have many members, so we,though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.Of God’s own will he brought us forth by the word of truth,that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.And …
Leader:What does the resurrection of Christ profit us?ALL:We believe that by his resurrectionChrist has overcome deaththat we might become partakers of that righteousnesswhich he purchased for us by his death;that we are also by his power raised up to a new life;and that His resurrection is a sure pledge of our resurrection. (Adapted from The …
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None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. We are not our own, for we were bought with a …
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Version 1 Leader: We affirm as the final authority for all truth and practice – SOLA SCRIPTURA.ALL: Scripture alone! Leader: We believe that salvation is found SOLUS CHRISTUS,ALL: in Christ alone! Leader: We believe that salvation is not deserved, but comes to us SOLA GRATIA,ALL: by grace alone! Leader: We believe that salvation is not …
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Leader: For thus says the LORD,I am the LORD, and there is no other…And there is no other god besides me,a righteous God and a Savior;there is none besides me.Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth!For I am God, and there is no other.ALL: For there is one God, and …
We, who were once separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world, have been brought near by the blood of Christ Jesus. He himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in …
Leader:Jesus said, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will …