A Confessing Church
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The Church is called to confess Christ. There are many different gifts that flow from our oneness in Christ. This true diversity enables us together to constitute the Body of Christ. But there are many human characteristics that are evidence of our brokenness, fallenness and sin. Such diversity is not a gift of Christ and cannot be celebrated. Rather, it should drive us to our knees for forgiveness, cleansing and transforming grace.
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• Diversity in Unity: Confessing Christ in a Pluralist Church, paper by Peter Blackburn at Second National Evangelical Summit, 20 February 1997, High Street Road Uniting Church, Mount Waverley, Victoria
• Assembly of Confessing Congregations within the Uniting Church in Australia.
• Confessing Church Movement within the Presbyterian Church (USA)
• Cambridge Declaration (1996) of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals