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Editor’s Note: Recently we ran an article on “Where Do We Start When There Are Only A Few Of Us?” in addition to our other articles on Church Renewal. That article focused on how to start with a few key individuals and prayerfully focus on a specific outreach ministry. That has the potential to change [...]

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Editor’s Note: You may read the three previous installments of this series here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 This is from a pre-event address by the Rt. Revd Robert Duncan, Moderator of the Common Cause Partnership in north America and Bishop of Pittsburgh delivered “Anglicansim Come of Age: A Post-Colonial and global Communion for [...]

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Editor’s Note: You may read the three previous installments of this series here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Today’s excerpt reflects on what is required to move forward from this point in time. How will we move forward? In the United Church of Christ a search committee has been formed to determine the denomination’s [...]

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Editor’s Note: This continues our presentation of the material from the GAFCON theological resource paper“The Way, The Truth, and the Life” begun yesterday. You may read the other installments of this series here: Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 While the Reformed church defines the definition of “Apostolic Ministry” differently than Anglicanism, the document [...]

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Editor’s Note: Bishop Nazir-Ali’s concern is actually “What is Authentic Anglicanism?” He has the distinction of actually being bold enough to say that England, a nation founded on the Christian Legal tradition should not bow to laws from rival religions. This stems from his belief in the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as the only Savior [...]

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During the week of June 22, 257 Anglican bishops from around the world will gather in Jerusalem to discuss their true unity in Christ because, they sadly conclude, their former unity based on their historical connection to the English Reformation has been broken. For the Global South and Western Evangelicals, this historic church of the [...]

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The Congregationalists and the Evangelical and Reformed shared a common doctrine from their very origins - the doctrine of infant baptism.
In their respective confessions, both groups acknowledged the right of children born to Christian parents to be brought to the baptismal font thanks to their understanding of the sacrament.
This has lead to much misunderstanding by [...]

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Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from The Congregationalist magazine for the benefit of all our readers but especially those whose churches were called “Congregationalist” . It refers to The Cambridge Platform reprinted here previously. It’s next to closing sentence is well taken: “The exercise of the freedoms of the Congregational Way [...]

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Editor’s Note: The United Church of Christ was formed largely as an attempt to unite two Reformed bodies in the US, the Congregationalists and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Both owe their existence, providentially speaking, to Jesus Christ through His servant John Calvin.
From Reformatus.us
The 500th Anniversary of John Calvin’s Birth takes place in July [...]

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Editor’s Note: One of the Reformed streams that ulimately composed the “United Church of Christ” and which the church pays lip service to is the “Congregational Stream”. The Campbridge Platform shows that the historic Congregationalism that serves as the ancestor of today’s UCC was not the freewheeling antinomianism we have come to know. Instead, the Platform emerges from the need for discipline in the church to adorn the Gospel. In 1708 a subsequent document, The Saybrook Platform, was drafted to strengthen the church’s order even more. Where are today’s concerns with orthodoxy and discipline? How are our present day practices consistent with the heritage we claim for ourselves? Whatever else might be said about the Platform, it did attempt to define the life of the church Biblically and regulate the church’s life according to God’s Word.

The Cambridge Platform

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