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Biblical Standard
The Christian Reformed Church of Australia subscribes to the following confessions:
The Heidelberg Catechism
The Belgic Confession
The Canons of Dort
The Westminster Confession
The Christian Reformed Church of Australia subscribes to the following three creeds:
The Apostles' Creed
The Athanasian Creed
The Nicene Creed
Our World Belongs to God
A Contemporary Testimony
Recent Pastoral Notes/Blog Items
Baptism (3) – The Status of our Kids
I told him that I would need to go away and think about that as I wasn’t sure whether I ought to be doing that or not. I also had to think about what he meant by ‘conversion’. In a sense we need to be converted daily from our sinful ways and to turn around and go God’s way. But that daily kind of conversion wasn’t the kind of conversion my friend had in mind. He was talking about that decisive moment in someone’s life when they move out of the Kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of God’s beloved Son.
- John Westendorp's blog
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Baptism (2) - From Circumcision to Baptism
My difficulties with infant baptism came about because of my friendship with some Baptists. They convinced me that since Scriptures teaches us to “repent and be baptised!” or to “believe and be baptised!” infants should not be baptised since they can neither repent nor believe. That argument appeared to make good sense. It still does.
The Reformed Pastor whom I talked about that when we were expecting our first child asked me whether I agreed that Baptism means essentially the same thing as Circumcision and that it has replaced Circumcision. I could hardly disagree because the Apostle Paul equates the two in Colossians 2.
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Baptism (1) – We don’t ‘Christen’ babies
With the present baby boom in our church we’re going to be having a number of baptisms and that always presents a special challenge for some people who are troubled by the practice of sprinkling some water on a baby’s head.
I sympathise with them.
I grew up in a Reformed Church family where that was the norm...
- John Westendorp's blog
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Shaped by History
Since marrying for the second time I’ve become acutely conscious that we are very much shaped by the events that happen in our lives.
I wasn’t so conscious of that when I was married to Ali. We had grown up together in the same congregation, taught Sunday School together for a while, sang in the same choir for a couple of years and went to the same youth group. We were both twenty-one when we married so we didn’t have all that much history behind us.
People say that second marriages are much more challenging. A lot more has happened in the respective lives of both husband and wife. Both have become more set in their ways. We’ve found that there’s a lot of truth in that.
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