REFORMATION WITNESSES
Paragraph 10 Basis of Union

10. REFORMATION WITNESSES
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 the Reformers 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 the Uniting Church will listen to the preaching of John Wesley in his Forty-Four Sermons (1793). It will commit its ministers and instructors to study these statements, so that the congregation of Christ’ people may again and again be reminded of the grace which justifies them through faith, of the centrality of the person and work of Christ the justifier, and of the need for a constant appeal to Holy Scripture.
REFORMATION WITNESSES
IN THE BASIS OF UNION

The Uniting Church continues to learn
of the teaching of the Holy Scriptures
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in the obedience and freedom of faith,

and in the POWER
of the promised gift
of the Holy Spirit,
from the witness of the Reformers
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
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the Uniting Church will listen
to the preaching of John Wesley
in his Forty-Four Sermons (1793).

It will commit
its ministers and instructors
to study these statements,

So that the congregation of Christ’s people
may again and again
be reminded
of the grace
which justifies them through faith,

Of the centrality
of the person and work
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Of Christ the Justifier

And of the need
for a constant appeal
to Holy Scripture.