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Do you know for sure...that you are going to heaven?
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Membership in the Winnsboro Reformed Church is governed by creditable confession of the faith in the the saving work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Those seeking to join with us are asked to look carefully at our beliefs and be willing to submit to the rule of the Christ in their life. This is exemplified by a public confession of faith . . . Jump to those points.
Consider the questions typically asked of those folks seeking to join themselves to the Winnsboro Reformed church. As the Worship begins, the minister announces that ______ wishes to join to the local church and has been examined and found to qualify as a Christian. They then come forward to make a public confession of faith. The confession of faith may be a personal statement, or answers to a series of short questions: Do you believe the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, to be the Word of God, and its doctrine of salvation to be the perfect and only true doctrine of salvation?
Do you confess that because of your sinfulness you abhor and humble yourself before God, and that you trust for salvation not in yourself but in Jesus Christ alone?
Do you acknowledge Jesus Christ as your sovereign Lord and do you promise, in reliance on the grace of God, to serve him with all that is in you, to forsake the world, to mortify your old nature, and to lead a godly life?
Do you agree to submit in the Lord to the government of this church and, in case you should be found delinquent in doctrine or life, to heed its discipline?
When any one has publicly professed his faith by answering these questions in the affirmative, the minister shall address him in the following or like words:
Beloved, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I welcome you to all the privileges of full communion with God’s people, and in particular to participation in the sacrament of the holy supper. I charge you that by the faithful use of the means of grace—the Word of God, the sacraments and prayer—and in humble reliance upon the grace of God, you continue steadfastly in the confession which you have made. Rest assured that if you confess Christ before men, he will confess you before his Father who is in heaven. May the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, and strengthen you. To him be the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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