Why Do We Need Confessions? — The Nature and Purpose of Confessions of Faith

This lecture discusses the nature and purpose of Creeds and Confessions of Faiths in the Christian Church. Why is it that across time the Christian church has written summary statements of the doctrine and belief that seek to summarize the teaching of Scripture? Confession and Creeds are both unavoidable and a necessary part of maintaining the structure of the Christian witness. They provide a means of both internal accountability to Church teaching and an external witness to the gospel. This lecture serves as an introduction to a larger series of lectures on the Westminster Confession of Faith.

Chapters

0:00 Introduction
2:47 The Nature of Creeds and Confessions
14:49 No Creed but the Bible? The Biblical Warrant for Confessions
25:06 Contemporary Challenges to Creeds and Confessions
29:08 The Purpose of Creeds and Confessions
40:43 The Westminster Confession and the Drama of Doctrine

[josephs]

Confession is the best tool which relieve the guilty feeling which creates high pressure and burden in the soul, mind, heart, in the nervous system and in the whole body.
Confession, forgiving others and blessing others may seems to be very hard in human life.
But when we abide to the words of Jesus we get back the heavenly peace and joy in soul and healthy body.
That is why Jesus said i am the way life and truth .
If we confess forgive and bless others without question we can see the Kingdom of God and feel the presence of God.This is cristianity of cristians by crist.

[zethumkhize]

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