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The Confession's theme is reconciliation. It can be summarized this way: "In Jesus Christ God was reconciling the world to himself...Therefore the church calls men to be reconciled to God and to one another." An amplification of this statement, from a section of the Confession titled "The New...
The Church has been practicing this flexibility of form for some years. But now, with the sanction of the Confession encouraging imaginative use of time and resource, there will be more congregations without church buildings and ministries without congregations. The proper movement within a Christian's life, according to the...
The Confession has a section on "Revelation and Religion" that puts all religions on the same human level, incuding the Christian religion, and then distinguishes between them all and God's relevation of himself. It says "The Christian religion, as distinct from God's revelation of himself, has been shaped...
Members of other religions should not fear meeting a Christian of the kind this Confession is trying to form. The Christian is more likely to engage in conflict with a fellow church member than a member of another religion. But the converse is also true. One ought not to expect...
But what is even more likely, when the Christian sets off as an emissary of reconciliation in the world, is his discovery that he too is in the world and a part of its power problem. But self-discovery in the life of another happens and sometimes heals. The Confession...