More on the Confession of Faith thing 2
When your group decides that it needs a confession of faith you have a choice to make. Do you adopt an existing one or do you write your own.
There is something to be said for writing your own.
For example, you may not want to identify yourselves with any particular movement within evangelicalism.
Again, the nature of your group may impose particular constraints - you may need a confession of faith in very simple English, for example.
Whatever the reason, it's a good exercise to try to write a brief confession of faith - to try to set out in a structured way the basics of what you believe as a christian. Then to look at some other examples (e.g. UCCF , EMW , AECW, Prison Fellowship) and to reflect on what you wrote and what you read.
There is something to be said for writing your own.
For example, you may not want to identify yourselves with any particular movement within evangelicalism.
Again, the nature of your group may impose particular constraints - you may need a confession of faith in very simple English, for example.
Whatever the reason, it's a good exercise to try to write a brief confession of faith - to try to set out in a structured way the basics of what you believe as a christian. Then to look at some other examples (e.g. UCCF , EMW , AECW, Prison Fellowship) and to reflect on what you wrote and what you read.
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