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A Faith Worth Teaching: The Heidelberg Catechism’s Enduring Heritage is unavailable, but you can change that!

For 450 years, churches throughout the world have been using the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) to instruct God’s people in foundational Christian doctrine. When Elector Frederick III (1515–1576) commissioned the preparation of a manual for instructing the youth and guiding the pastors and teachers of his domain, he could not have imagined the profound effect it would have on future generations of...

That is a time consuming process. Through these “crawling exercises” we notice that the confession brings us perpetually closer to Scripture and opens our eyes for Scripture. In this way, we arrive at Scripture itself. The confession is all about Scripture. When through these crawling exercises we may arrive at the message of Scripture, that does not mean that we leave the confession behind as an empty shell, like a butterfly does when it breaks out of its cocoon. No, we then learn to utilize this
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