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St Davids Uniting Church
COOPERS PLAINS UNITING CHURCH
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Uniting Church in Australia The Congregational Union of Australia, the Methodist Church of Australasia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia, in fellowship with the whole Church Catholic, and seeking to bear witness to that unity which is both Christ's gift and His will for the Church, entered into union under the name of the Uniting Church in Australia. |
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Uniting Church in Australia The Uniting Church lives and works within the faith and unity of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. She recognizes that she is related to other Churches in ways which give expression, however partially, to that unity in faith and mission. ... She believes that Christians in Australia are called to bear witness to a unity of faith and life in Christ which transcends cultural and economic, national and racial boundaries, and to this end she commits herself to seek special relationships with Churches in Asia and the Pacific. She declares her desire to enter more deeply into the faith and mission of the Church in Australia, by working together and seeking union with other Churches. |
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Uniting Church in Australia The Uniting Church enters into unity with the Church throughout the ages by her use of the confessions known as the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed . She receives these as authoritative statements of the Catholic Faith, framed in the language of their day and used by Christians in many days, to declare and to guard the right understanding of the faith. She commits her ministers and instructors to careful study of these creeds and to the discipline of interpreting their teaching in a later age. She commends to ministers and congregations their use for instruction in the faith, and their use in worship as acts of allegiance to the Holy Trinity. |
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Uniting Church in Australia 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 reformation fathers 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 she will listen to the preaching of John Wesley in his Forty-Four Sermons (1793) . She will commit her ministers and instructors to study these statements, so that the congregations of Christ's people may again and again be reminded of the grace which justifies them through faith, and of the need for a constant appeal to Holy Scripture . |
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Uniting Church in Australia The Uniting Church affirms that she belongs to the people of God on the way to the promised end. She prays God that, through the gift of the Spirit, He will constantly correct that which is erroneous in her life, will bring her into deeper unity with other Churches, and will use her worship, witness and service to His eternal glory through Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen. |
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