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The New Covenant

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: What is the New Covenant?

A: The New Covenant is the new relationship with God given by Jesus Christ, the Messiah, to the apostles; and, through them, to all who believe in him.

Q: What did the Messiah promise in the New Covenant?

A: Christ promised to bring us into the kingdom of God and give life in all its fullness.

Q: What response did Christ require?

A: Christ commanded us to believe in him and to keep his commandments.

Q: What are the commandments taught by Christ?

A: Christ taught us the Summary of the Law and gave us the New Commandment.

Q: What is the Summary of the Law?

A: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and the great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Q: What is the New Commandment?

A: The New Commandment is that we love one another as Christ loved us.

Q: Where may we find what Christians believe about Christ?

A: What Christians believe about Christ is found in the Scriptures and summed up in the creeds.

An Outline of Faith

Click on a link below to read more FAQs about our faith.

• - Human Nature
• - God the Father
• - The Old Covenant
• - The Ten Commandments
• - Sin and Redemption
• - God the Son

• - The New Covenant
• - The Creeds
• - The Holy Spirit
• - The Holy Scriptures
• - The Church
• - The Ministry

• - Prayer and Worship
• - The Sacraments
• - Holy Baptism
• - The Holy Eucharist
• - Other Sacramental Rites
• - The Christian Hope

Millennium Development Goals

The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases.