‘I Choose This Day!’

On this day of our Lord, I affirm my faith in Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is God’s gracious answer to human sin, and He is my personal Lord and Savior. I affirm Christ alone.

Further, I affirm my belief that the Bible is God’s holy Word. It is through Scripture alone that I am assured of His salvation and am instructed regarding His will for my life. I affirm Scripture alone.

Further, I affirm that the marriage of a man and a woman is instituted by God and blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ. I testify with Scripture that “Whom God has joined together, let no one put asunder,” and that sexual relations outside this covenant of marriage are contrary to the will of God.

I grieve over the apparent departure of the Presbyterian Church (USA) from these Scriptural truths, and I am estranged from its policies and programs that do not affirm Christ alone, Scripture alone and the holy institution of marriage alone as the divinely ordained context for human sexual activity.

Therefore, I call on the Session of my church to initiate a prayerful study of PC(USA) policies and programs and the nature of our church’s relationship with the PC(USA). I ask that the Session report its findings and recommendations to our congregation on or before Reformation
Sunday, October 30, 2011.