Kris McKenzie teaches on Chapter 27 from the 1689
London Baptist Confession of Faith.
Chapter 27: Of the Communion of Saints
1. All saints that are united to Jesus Christ, their
head, by his Spirit, and faith, although they are not
made thereby one person with him, have fellowship in
his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and
glory; and, being united to one another in love, they
have communion in each others gifts and graces, and
are obliged to the performance of such duties, public
and private, in an orderly way, as do conduce to
their mutual good, both in the inward and outward
man.
(1 John 1:3; John 1:16; Phil. 3:10; Romans
6:5, 6; Eph. 4:15, 16; 1 Cor. 12:7; 1
Cor. 3:21-23; 1 Thess. 5:11, 14; Romans
1:12; 1 John 3:17, 18; Gal. 6:10)
2. Saints by profession are bound to maintain an
holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God,
and in performing such other spiritual services as
tend to their mutual edification; as also in
relieving each other in outward things according to
their several abilities, and necessities; which
communion, according to the rule of the gospel,
though especially to be exercised by them, in the
relation wherein they stand, whether in families, or
churches, yet, as God offereth opportunity, is to be
extended to all the household of faith, even all
those who in every place call upon the name of the
Lord Jesus; nevertheless their communion one with
another as saints, doth not take away or infringe the
title or propriety which each man hath in his goods
and possessions.
(Heb. 10:24, 25; Heb. 3:12, 13; Acts 11:29,
30; Eph. 6:4; 1 Cor. 12:14-27; Acts 5:4;
Eph. 4:28) |
