[Members] Scripture Readings for SUnday

[Rev. Christian D Boyd]

This Sunday we will be celebrating All Saints, and commemorating those
sisters and brothers past and present, who have been faithful witnesses to
the Light of Christ and have made an impact on our faith and life as
disciples.

 

The Readings for the Day:

 

Isaiah 56:3-8

Revelation of John 7:2-4, 9-17

Gospel of Luke 6:20-31

 

Also, as you read and meditate on the readings for Sunday this week, also
read for your edification and devotion a portion from our Second Helvetic
Confession of 1561 in regard to the Communion of Saints:

 

THE DUE HONOR TO BE RENDERED TO THE SAINTS. We acknowledge them to be living
members of Christ and friends of God who have gloriously overcome the flesh
and the world. Hence we love them as brothers and sisters, and also honor
them; yet not with any kind of worship but by an honorable opinion of them
and just praises of them. We also imitate them. For with ardent longings and
supplications we earnestly desire to be imitators of their faith and
virtues, to share eternal salvation with them, to dwell eternally with them
in the presence of God, and to rejoice with them in Christ. And in this
respect we approve of the opinion of St. Augustine in De Vera Religione:
"Let not our religion be the cult of men who have died. For if they have
lived holy lives, they are not to be thought of as seeking such honors; on
the contrary, they want us to worship him by whose illumination they rejoice
that we are fellow-servants of his merits. They are therefore to be honored
by the way of imitation, but not to be adored in a religious manner," etc.

For more info on this Confession and our others, go to:
http://www.creeds.net/reformed/helvetic/index.htm

 

Peace,

cdb

 

 

Rev. Christian Dominic Boyd

 

Pastor, New Creation PC(USA) in O'Fallon, IL

& Staff, Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy

Mob: 618.292.8583

www.NewCreationPC.org

Enriching our community 
through vibrant, 
Christ-centered relationships...
one life at a time.

(2 Cor 5:17)

 

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