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The Confession of Faith of the Evangelical United Brethren Church is one of five established Doctrinal Standards of the United Methodist Church, along with the Articles of Religion, the General Rules of United Societies, the Standard Sermons of John Wesley, and John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the New Testament.
Title page, 1st ed. The reformed confessions of faith are the confessional documents of various Reformed churches. These express the doctrinal views of the churches adopting the confession. Confessions play a crucial part in the theological identity of reformed churches, either as standards to which ministers must subscribe, or more generally ...
The Methodist Churches teach that apostasy can occur through a loss of faith or through sinning (refusing to be holy). [59] [60] If a person backslides but later decides to return to God, he or she must confess his or her sins and be entirely sanctified again (see conditional security). [61] [62] [63]
The Covenant Renewal Service, or simply called the Covenant Service, [1] was adapted by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for the purpose of the renewal of the Christian believer's covenant with God. Wesley's Directions for Renewing Our Covenant with God, first published in 1780, contains his instructions for a covenant service adapted ...
The Hungarian Confession (1570) Second Scotch Confession (1580) Irish Articles of Religion (1615) Canons of Dordt (1618–19) Westminster Confession of Faith 1646; Savoy Declaration 1658; Helvetic Consensus (1675) Second London Confession of Faith (1677/1689) Walcheren Articles (1693) The Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith. (1823)
Covenant theology (also known as covenantalism, federal theology, or federalism) is a Biblical Theology, a conceptual overview and interpretive framework for understanding the overall structure of the Bible. It is often distinguished from dispensational theology, a competing form of biblical theology. It uses the theological concept of a ...
The Westminster Confession of Faith, or simply the Westminster Confession, is a Reformed confession of faith. Drawn up by the 1646 Westminster Assembly as part of the Westminster Standards to be a confession of the Church of England, it became and remains the "subordinate standard" of doctrine in the Church of Scotland and has been influential within Presbyterian churches worldwide.
Justification takes place solely by God's grace. "We confess together that persons are justified by faith in the gospel "apart from works prescribed by the law" (Rom 3:28). (a faith which worketh by love. Gal.5:6)" "We confess together that good works – a Christian life lived in faith, hope and love – follow justification and are its fruits.