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What We Believe
Their WEB site provides a wealth of information about who the Christian Reformed Church is and what we believe. To read more regarding what we believe, we suggest you might want to look at two documents available on this web site. They are: 'Our World Belongs To God; A Contemporary Testimony' and 'The Heidelberg Catechism'. The following key questions and answers from 'The Heidelberg Catechism' provide a very brief summary of what we believe.
Q1. What is your only comfort in life and in death?
That I am not my own but belong body and soul in life and in death to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.
Because I belong to him, Christ , by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.
Q21. What is true faith?
True faith is not only a knowledge and conviction that everything God reveals in his Word is true; it is also a deep-rooted assurance, created in me by the Holy Spirit through the gospel, that out of sheer grace earned for us by Christ, not only others, but I too, have my sins forgiven, has been made forever right with God and have been granted salvation.
Q60. How are you right with God?
Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God's commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me.
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