I have continued to facilitate the meetings in the chapel and on the following ground of unity I committed to continuing in the hope others would join us.
Takeley Chapel Community is a gathering of people who commit to the basis of faith of Takeley Congregational Church. It’s not perfect and is not a credal statement as we are a congregational church so it’s the start of a conversation.
- We acknowledge God to be our Father and Jesus Christ His Son to be our Saviour and the Holy Spirit to be our Guide, and commit ourselves to live together as a company of Christ’s people.
- We seek to fulfil the Word of God, in bearing one another’s burdens and sharing one another’s joys, in welcoming the stranger and befriending the poor and lonely, in caring for the young and building up our families as part of the great family of God.
- We promise to endeavour by prayer, personal service and conscientious giving, to proclaim the Kingdom of God at home and abroad, and to fulfil His will in all human relationships in which we have a part, whether social, economic or international.
- We intend that our church should seek by God’s grace fellowship with churches of other denominations, especially those of our neighbourhood working and praying together with them for the spiritual unity of Christ’s church in the world.
- Finally: We commit ourselves to the whole Church of Christ on earth and commit ourselves to the Word of God our Father, in the knowledge that He will not leave us or forsake us, and that at the last all those who accept Christ as Saviour will be gathered together in Him our Redeemer.
As a rule, this is a basis for unity. How it is worked out in our daily life is our choice. We will have our own ideas about the Trinity, the Word of God, the Kingdom of God, Christ and Jesus, and Redemption. We are at least constituted as a meeting to hear one another and to meet regularly.
We pray for one another.
Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives.
May you never give up praying.
When you pray, may you keep alert and be thankful.
Pray that together we may make the message of the mystery of Christ as clear as possible.
Amen
(Based on Colossians 3 and 4)
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