We are a Pilgrim People
Posted: June 25, 2017 Filed under: Uniting Church in Western Australia Leave a commentWe worshipped sat our home congregation at Wembley Uniting Church this morning. We are frequently visiting other congregations on a Sunday but it is always good to get back to “our” people. Its a small congregation of mostly elderly people but they love and serve the Lord. Our minister was late this morning – the car battery was flat – so we sang hymns until she arrived.
Today is the Sunday after the 40th anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia (June 22nd). The service didn’t particularly focus on that (I was glad – too many anniversary events this week) but we did use the Statement of Faith from the Uniting in Worship book which is based on the Basis of Union (the founding document of the Uniting Church 40 years ago).
We believe in God,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We proclaim Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen One, confessing him as Lord
to the glory of God the Father.
In the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
we acclaim Jesus as the Lord of the church, the Head over all things,
the beginning of a new creation.
We acknowledge that we live and work between the time of Christ’s death and resurrection and the final consummation of all things which he will bring.
We are a pilgrim people,
always on the way towards a promised goal;
on the way Christ feeds us with words and sacraments, and we have the gift of the spirit
in order that we may not lose the way.
We will live and work within the faith and unity of the one holy catholic and apostolic church, bearing witness to that unity
which is both Christ’s gift and his will.
We affirm that every member of the church
is engaged to confess the faith of Christ crucified.
Together with all the people of God,
we will serve the world for which Christ died and we await with hope the day of the Lord Jesus.
