We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Official documents are those documents which were created by The Presbyterian Church in Canada and which are regularly used as references or for instruction.
The Acts and Proceedings of General Assembly is a book produced at the conclusion of each annual General Assembly which records the official acts of General Assembly. Catechisms are summaries of doctrinal statements, usually in a question and answer format, and designed to be used as a teaching tool.
Catechism For Today was produced by a committee of General Assembly using a question and answer format over 52 Sundays. Subordinate Standards are those creeds and confessions which were created over the centuries and adopted by the church.
Confessing the Faith Today: The Nature and Function of Subordinate Standards is a study document for sessions and presbyteries on the nature and function of a subordinate standard in the life of the courts and congregations of The Presbyterian Church in Canada. The Presbyterian Church in Canada recognizes the following Confessions as standards parallel to ours:. The Presbyterian Church in Canada has made theological and social statements.
To read more about these statements, visit the Social Action Hub. What We Believe. In Living Faith , we affirm that: There is one true God whom to know is life eternal, whom to serve is joy and peace. The Bible. We seek to understand the Bible in its original historical setting, recognizing the variety of material it contains. For this, a wise use of historical-critical methods is essential. We look at the biblical material as a canonical whole. The dangers of quoting isolated proof texts are well known.
We look for the underlying unity and diversity, continuity and discontinuity in Scripture, paying particular attention to the relationships between the Old and New Testaments. We bring the biblical materials to bear on our contemporary situation.
The gift of discernment is especially needed here. We must pray for the guidance of the same Holy Spirit who inspired Scripture. Worship and the Sacraments. Worship The church lives to praise God.
Blessing and honour and glory and power be to our God for ever and ever! Baptism Baptism is a sign and seal of our union with Christ and with his church. Holy Communion In breaking bread and drinking wine Jesus told us to remember him. Living Faith. In every generation the church needs to confess its faith anew. Foi vivante.
Living Faith - Korean Translation. Reaching Out and Serving. The Christian church exists for others. We believe that our faith is alive through our actions of service James In Presbyterian churches we find evidence of activities that build community and reach out to serve others. Many congregations sponsor Girl Guide or Scouts Canada groups, encouraging the young people to get involved in Religion in Life Programs.
Many congregations have groups that support alternative trading organizations like Bridgehead or human right initiatives like those of Amnesty International. Our church bulletin might include an announcement about an intergenerational program for Pentecost or an upcoming youth event, an appeal for Meals-on-Wheels volunteers or for contributions for a food drive, or information about a petition or letter-writing campaign calling for justice in another country.
Presbyterians are people involved in social action. Presbyterians gather in worship to praise God, to pray, to enjoy each other's fellowship, and to receive instruction through the teachings of God's Word. Like Catholics and Episcopalians , they also practice the act of communion. Church members consider communion a solemn but joyful act, symbolic of celebrating at the table of their Savior, and a reconciliation with God and with one another.
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When you have problems, you may ask your friends to pray for you. But why restrict yourself to present-day friends? Why not also ask radiant Christians from previous centuries to offer up their intercessions on your behalf? This is perhaps the most positive way to think of praying to the saints. Yet there is a problem here. Asking Saint Joan to pray for you becomes praying to Saint Joan.
But praying is an act of worship and devotion, and this can be offered only to God. In Roman Catholic thinking when you die you are carrying the guilt of all the sins you have committed since your last confession.
If your sins are venial relatively slight , you will now work them off in purgatory. A mortal sin, in contrast, cannot be resolved in purgatory; an unconfessed mortal sin means you are damned to hell. Presbyterians do not believe that sins can be graded this way.
Sin is sin. Confession and assurance of pardon are not what enables God to forgive us, but rather what enables us to recognize or feel or experience that we are forgiven. Presbyterians have always had a very strong doctrine of biblical authority, but historically most have shied away from calling that doctrine inerrancy. Inerrancy is a word that points to complete factual accuracy. It is easy to assume this must be the right word to describe Scripture since it is the Word of God and therefore must not have any mistakes in it.
But this reasoning does not quite work, for a couple of reasons:. While you can apply the idea of inerrancy to a history quiz, it is hard to see how to apply it to a work of art. An inerrant quiz paper is one in which all the answers are factually accurate. What do you think when you look at that painting? The poems, songs, parables and sagas of the Bible are literary masterpieces. For example, the Parable of the Good Samaritan: Jesus made up this brief yet poignant story to answer the objection of the lawyer who asked about eternal life.
Defending the inerrancy of this story misses the point. The point is to obey the authority of the story.
Believing in the inerrancy of Scripture commits us to the factual accuracy of individual texts, while believing in the authority of Scripture presses us to know the message of Scripture as a whole.
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