Reformed Church in America Leaders Adopt Belhar Confession

olwage »

Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:33 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

On Homosexuality: Belhar Confession has no clear link to the matter. It had been debated on the last URCSA Synod, the church which gave birth to the confession.

Belhar is, in the vein of the Barmen Declaration, about Christ as Lord, confronting the powers of this age, and we as Church standing with and in Him. Jesus is the Lord!

The heart of the Gospel: I Cor. 15 is in he same Bible as John 17 and Eph. 4. We cannot obey the Great Commission without being a people of integrity, we cannot preach the Gospel of Christ's Lordship while we are compromising our testimony to the (sometimes very pious)powers of the age. We can only BE the Good News if we seek to manifest the unity we have in Christ, if we obey Christ in matters of reconciliation and justice.

I recommend that the Confession be read. Why a confession? Why Heidelberg, or the Belgic, or Westminster? Or the Declaration of Barmen? Would that many more German Christians had read that timely! Confessions are for a brave church, which we need in a world beset by relativism, and ruled by mere men.