The Christian Faith
This section of the website provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments. It begins with Introduction·to the Christian Faith. More content will be added in due course.
The section entitled Short Talks comprises stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals.·
Second: To worship him
Our debt to God
You’ll remember in the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant that a certain king discovered that one of his provincial governors owed him an enormous sum of money, something too vast for him ever to repay. And our debt to God is like that, or rather it is much greater.
Second: To thank, call upon & trust God
Thanksgiving
Last week we saw that our debt to God is much greater than we can ever repay. Not only has he given us our life here but, in dying on the Cross for our salvation, he has also given us the opportunity of sharing his glorious life in Heaven. For these two gifts alone we could never be too thankful to him, but that is not all he has done for us.
Third: To honour his holy Name
The Third Commandment is, “You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain: for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless, that takes his Name in vain”. “To take” the Name of God means to speak it, and “in vain” means unnecessarily, idly, frivolously.