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NASB | John 8:31 ¶ So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 8:31 ¶ So Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed Him, "If you abide in My word [continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them, then] you are truly My disciples. |
Subject: Free in Christ |
Bible Note: Thank you for your reply, I agree that it is a good thing to have member classes, and I will look into the references you mentioned later tonight. The perfectionism thing scares me, as I thought my wife and I have finally found a church home, and she likes it so much, but we have been to ten churches in the last several years and cannot seem to find a good fit. I realize that no church will be perfect, so I am trying to decide the true depth of the issues where we differ, to see whether they would actually be divisive enough to leave this church, because I know my wife would think not. Yet she also understands that I need to lead my house down the correct path. We have been married only 4 years, and each have children over 30 yrs so it is not a huge issue, but, since my last post, I found the affirmations of this church's denomination, and it maybe actually deeper than what I originally thought. I would like to paste a section of this for your perusal, and if you could be so kind as to post your opinion in the next day or so, I will be exceeding grateful. Lord bless you, and yours. Following, are the 6 affirmations of faith, and then, a paragraph that caught my abrupt attention: We affirm the centrality of the word of God. We affirm the necessity of the new birth. We affirm a commitment to the whole mission of the church. We affirm the church as a fellowship of believers. We affirm a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit. We affirm the reality of freedom in Christ. The Evangelical Covenant Church celebrates two divinely ordained sacraments, baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Recognizing the reality of freedom in Christ, and in conscious dependence on the work of the Holy Spirit, we practice both the baptism of infants and believer baptism. The Evangelical Covenant Church embraces this freedom in Christ as a gift that preserves personal conviction, yet guards against an individualism that disregards the centrality of the Word of God and the mutual responsibilities and disciplines of the spiritual community. |