Embracing a Common Confession

I. Introductory Comment — What is a common confession?
A Common Confession is a “code of faith . . . to assistance you in controversy, a confirmation in faith, and a means of edification in righteousness.” (author unknown)
“When men use the very words of the Bible to promote heresy, when the Word of truth is perverted to serve error, nothing less than a confession of Faith will serve publicly to draw the lines between truth and error...” (author unknown)
C. H. Spurgeon said a common confession “gives credence to no teaching but that which is manifestly approved of Him, and owned by the Holy Spirit. Cleave fast to the Word of God which is here mapped out for you.” (referring to the London Baptist Confession of Faith)
But there is one given to us in the Word of God that we do well to consider