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ACGB Faith Statement
 


As partners in God's mission, we make our commitments with reference to the personal, religious, social, and economic realities of our contexts. In particular, we affirm the following:

e recognise that Biblical truth is God's truth for obedience and mission. While our primary
theological commitments are expressed in the historic creeds confessions of the
churches and denomination in which we are already engaged in mission, we affirm our partnership in obedience to God, in membership in the Church, and in mission to the world in the following terms.


We acknowledge ourselves as those called by the grace of God the Father, redeemed through the death and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ, and indwelt by the Holy Spirit to be partners in God's mission.

We are committed to Jesus Christ our Lord, God's Supreme revelation, the Word made flesh in history, and are committed to obey God's written and authoritative Word.

We seek to discover, under the leading of the Holy Spirit, its meaning for our obedience today in each of our contexts, by engaging the Bible with our contexts and by seeking insights from each contextual expression of the Gospel to challenge our own insights.

We are committed to the holistic mission of Jesus Christ, which is to establish God's Kingdom of right personal, religious, social and economic relationship in him.

We seek to discern and participate in the work of God in Christ in history to bring in his Kingdom by proclaiming the good news of God's judgement on human rebellion, of the reconciliation of people with God and their neighbours, and of the restoration of all things in Jesus Christ, and by calling people to repent and believe in Jesus Christ and experience new birth in him through the Holy Spirit.

We affirm God's identification with poor, powerless, alienated and oppressed people in their situation. We recognise that we ourselves are part of such situations and accept our complicity in this evil. Yet we seek to achieve justice with the victims of injustice and make all aware of God's judgement on such poor oppression.

We affirm the Lordship of Jesus Christ over all demonic power of evil which possess person and pervade structures, societies, and the created order.

We seek to indemnify and engage with issues where the humanity of men and women is defaced by evil, in order that the reality of new men women in Christ may emerge. We affirm our hope in Jesus Christ's promise of a triumphant return to fulfil the kingdom by total transformation of the created order.

We seek the power of the Holy Spirit to live under the Lordship of Jesus Christ in expectation of his final victory. We seek to take a prophetic stance against dominating and dehumanising schemes by exercising and encouraging servant leadership among the people of God.

We affirm our continuity with the body of Christ throughout history world-wide and are committed to its local and national expressions in our contexts.

We seek to enable Churches to incarnate the Gospel of the Kingdom of God in their own contexts.

We seek to affirm the gifts of the Holy Spirit given to all members of the Body of Christ, and to build partnership whereby the Spirit's may be mutually given and received for enrichment and correction across boundaries and forces that divide the unity of Christ's mission.


 
 
 
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