Affirmation from Romans 8:35, 37-39
- Leader:
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
- Shall
- tribulation
- or distress,
- or persecution
- or famine.
- or nakedness
- or peril
or sword?
- People:
- No!
- In all things we are more than conquerors
through the One Who loved us.
- We are sure that neither
- death
- nor life,
- nor angels,
- nor principalities,
- nor things present,
- nor things to come,
- nor powers,
- nor height,
- nor depth,
- nor anything else in all creation,
- will be able to separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Thanks be to God! Amen.
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Affirmation from 1 Corinthians 15:1-6; Colossians 1:15-20
- Leader:
- This is the Good News
- Which we have received,
- in Which we stand,
- and by Which we are saved:
- People:
- Christ
- died for our sins,
- was buried,
- was raised on the third day,
and appeared - first to the women,
- then to Peter
- and the Twelve,
- and then to many faithful witnesses.
- We believe Jesus
- is the Christ,
- the Anointed One of God,
- the Firstborn of all creation,
- the Firstborn from the dead,
- in Whom all things hold together,
- in Whom the Fullness of God was pleased to dwell
- by the Power of the Spirit.
- Christ
- is the Head
- and by the blood of the cross
- reconciles all things to God. Amen.
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Affirmation from 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 1:15; 3:16
- Leader:
- There is one God
- and there is one Mediator,
- Christ Jesus,
- Who came as a Ransom for all,
- to Whom we testify.
- People:
- This saying is sure
- and worthy of full acceptance:
- That Jesus Christ
- came into the world to save sinners
- and was manifested in the flesh,
- vindicated in the Spirit,
- seen by angels,
- proclaimed among the nations,
- believed in throughout the world,
- taken up in glory.
- Great indeed is the Mystery of the Gospel. Amen.
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