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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:
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recognise that Biblical truth
is God's truth for obedience
and mission. While our primary
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commitments are expressed
in the historic creeds confessions
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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.
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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.
