DECLARATION OF FAITH
Approval Given By Presbytery
A draft declaration of faith, issued by four churches considering union, was approved with minor amendments by the Christchurch Prekbytery. The negotiating churches are the Associated Churches of Christ, the. Congregational Union, and the Methodist and the Presbyterian Churches. The Rev. M. W. Wilson, who introduced . the draft, said it was never intended that it should be used as a document to which ministers and elders should subscribe as a test of orthodoxy. "Rather, it is to say: ‘This is what we believe in out day and generation!," said Mr Wilson, The draft ..declaration Will be referred to the General Assembly’s church union committee. . ■■ The Rev. J. L. Wilson, minister of the, East Papakura Parish, has sent all ministers in the Christchurch Presbytery, a statement Criticising the draft declaration. He was not at the Presbytery meeting. Mr Wilson’s article was published in the “Evangelical Presbyterian,” a publication of the Westminster Confession, a section in the Presbyterian Church which maintains strict adherence to the seventeenth century Westminster Confession of Faith.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29818, 10 May 1962, Page 11
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