We would like to welcome you on behalf of the Christian Reformed Churches of Australia to our home on the Internet. We hope you will find that this site helps you learn about Jesus Christ and His church of which we are part.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no-one can boast
(Ephesians 2:8-9)
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A Church Reforming to Reach the Lost for Christ
At our national synod held in May 2006, the Christian Reformed Churches of Australia covenanted together to continue to reform and re-shape our priorities and practices so that the message of grace and forgiveness through Jesus Christ might be more clearly heard and understood by our neighbours and community.
This commitment was expressed by adopting the following statement of the Churches’ fourfold Gospel task:
In submission to the Lord Jesus Christ and his command to make disciples of all nations, we covenant:
- To call upon God for such an outpouring of his Spirit that his people will be assured of his love through his Word, seek to please the Saviour in all things, manifest the godly life and be filled with prayerful and sacrificial compassion for the lost in all the world.
- To enable local churches to expand numerically, equip and nurture their members, and become the mother-churches of as many fellowships and congregations as possible; and also to take further initiatives to create fellowships by penetrating structures of society with the gospel.
- To multiply the number of well-trained persons (ordained, non-ordained, full time, part time, voluntary) lovingly dedicated to the creation and development of such fellowships and congregations by proclaiming the gospel.
- To reform continually the life of the denomination (including our church ethos, customs, church order, use of resources, denominational committees, support staff and agencies) to encourage and enable the fulfilment of the fundamental aim.
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