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“The life,
death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for
the church’s mission. His life as man involves the church in the common life of
men. His service to men commits the church to work for every form of human
well-being. His suffering makes the church sensitive to all the sufferings of
mankind so that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of men in every kind of
need. His crucifixion discloses to the church God’s judgment on man’s inhumanity
to man and the awful consequences of its own complicity in injustice. In the
power of the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the
promise of God’s renewal of man’s life in society and of God’s victory over all
wrong.”
(The Book of Confessions, The Confession of 1967, 9.32)
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