St Barnabas Mossley Hill Liverpool England

Church of England Parish Church Diocese of Liverpool

A Church for Everyone

What We Believe

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Advent Service at St Barnabas Penny Lane

Lighted candles at St Barnabas Advent Service

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What it means to be a Christian

Christian life is lived in relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and in common with other Christians in the church seeking to deepen that relationship and to follow the way that Jesus taught.

For Christians God is understood and known as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

…Father… God is love, caring for creation and for every human being as God's beloved child.

…Son… God is as he has revealed himself to be in the historical person of Jesus Christ. Jesus' life, death and resurrection holds the key to knowing and loving God, and to making sense of life, before and after death.

…and Holy Spirit… God is alive, loving and active today, inspiring faith, justice and truth, sustaining the life of the world, giving spiritual gifts to the church and bearing his spiritual fruit in the world - changed lives and a transformed society.

Finding out more

If you want to wait before contacting St Barnabas, and you'd rather find out more about Jesus online, why not visit www.rejesus.co.uk, and www.christianity.org.uk?

St Barnabas church also runs Alpha Courses for those who wish to learn more about Christianity in a friendly environment. In addition a series of short 5 week courses about aspects of Christian Life is regularly held at St Barnabas throughout the year. Click here to register your interest in any of these courses.

But because Christianity is about relationship and community, the best way to find out about faith and prayer, to raise questions and to get help, is to meet some Christians. The Church of England is just one of the Christian churches in this country. We seek to work alongside other Christian churches and denominations as closely as we can.

You can also learn more about God as he is in Jesus by reading the Bible - why not start with the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament?

The Church of England is made up of communities of Christians in every corner of the land. Most of these communities can be found via the parish church buildings in every city and town and in almost every village.

Many Church of England members now meet in and through smaller groups, relating to networks of people in our fast-changing society. Or they seek to serve particular groups of people and to find their Christian identity alongside them.

Other members of the Church of England are committed to traditional religious communities, whether as monks and nuns or as people associated with those communities.

There are also online communities of Christians who use the resources of the web to make contact.

What it means to be a member of the Church of England

Glad you enjoyed the service at St Barnabas

The Scriptures and the Gospels, the Apostolic Church and the early Church Fathers, are the foundation of faith of the Church of England The basic tenets being :

	We view the Old and New Testaments 'as containing all things necessary for salvation' and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith.
	We understand the Apostles' creed as the baptismal symbol, and the Nicene creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian faith. (see Creeds)
	The two sacraments ordained by Christ himself - Baptism and the Supper of the Lord - are administered with unfailing use of Christ's words of institution, and the elements are ordained by him.
	The historic episcopate is locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of his Church.

Learning about Jesus

Learning about Jesus at St Barnabas Mossley Hill

The Church of England traces its Christian roots back to the early Church, and its specifically Anglican identity to the post-Reformation development of the Church of England.

Members of the Church of England uphold the Catholic and Apostolic faith. Following the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Church is committed to the proclamation of the good news of the Gospel to the whole creation. In practice this is based on the revelation contained in Holy Scripture and the Catholic creeds, and is interpreted in light of Christian tradition, scholarship, reason and experience.

By baptism in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a person is made one with Christ and received into the fellowship of the Church. This sacrament of initiation is open to children as well as to adults.

Members of St Barnabas Choir receiving Holy Communion

Receiving Holy Communion at St Barnabas Mossley Hill

Central to worship for members of the Church of England is the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, also called the Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper or the Mass. In this offering of prayer and praise, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are recalled through the proclamation of the word and the celebration of the sacrament. Other important rites, commonly called sacraments, include confirmation, holy orders, reconciliation, marriage and anointing of the sick.

Worship is at the very heart of the Church of England. Its styles vary from simple to elaborate, or even a combination. The great uniting text was The Book of Common Prayer, in its various revisions, and the modern language liturgies, such as Common Worship, which now exist alongside it still bear a family likeness. Both The Book of Common Prayer, and more recent Anglican liturgies give expression to the comprehensiveness found within the Church whose principles reflect that of the via media in relation to its own and other Christian Churches. For Daily Church of England services click here

Another distinguishing feature of the corporate nature of the Church of England is that it is an interdependent Church, where parishes, dioceses and provinces help each other to achieve by mutual support in terms of financial assistance and the sharing of other resources.

To be a member of the Church of England is to be on a journey of faith to God supported by a fellowship of co-believers who are dedicated to finding Him by prayer and service.

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