Work,  Charter

 1 I  Believe,5 |       they are instructed by the Church, they belong to the Church
 2 I  Believe,5 |       Church, they belong to the Church and celebrate with us in
 3 I  Believe,8 |        Adam. Baptism in the true Church liberates us from the effects
 4 I  Believe,9 |        to approach and enter the Church is according to the Fathers, "
 5 I  Believe,10|     other saints in the Orthodox Church) were saved, and not because
 6 I  Believe,11|        is not the "Mother of the Church," as though She were dissociated
 7 I  Believe,11|        were dissociated from the Church or superior to It., but
 8 I  Believe,11|          all the faithful of the Church, of Which She also is a
 9 I  Believe,12|      Saviour of the body" of the Church (Eph. 5:23). I believe that
10 I  Believe,12|          with God outside of the Church. For the Lord said, "I am
11 I  Believe,12|         are those members of the Church, the Body of Christ, who
12 I  Believe,14|         been the teaching of the Church: "The worship of the icon
13 I  Believe,14|        upon the Tradition of the Church, as though it were an afterthought.
14 I  Believe,14|       objects which are found in Church, but also holy and sanctifying,
15 I  Believe,16|          be dissociated from the Church, for She wrote them. The
16 I  Believe,16|   Scriptures were written in the Church, by the Church and for the
17 I  Believe,16|    written in the Church, by the Church and for the Church. Outside
18 I  Believe,16|        by the Church and for the Church. Outside the Church, the
19 I  Believe,16|          the Church. Outside the Church, the Scriptures cannot be
20 I  Believe,16|    Scriptures though outside the Church is like a stranger trying
21 I  Believe,16|         who is a stranger to the Church, to Her life, to Her Mysteries
22 I  Believe,16|         and the Tradition of the Church. By the word "Tradition,"
23 I  Believe,16|      that have been added to the Church. According to the holy Apostle
24 I  Believe,16|        and texts of the Orthodox Church are the Septuagint version
25 I  Believe,16|        also been approved by the Church and are extensively used.
26 I  Believe,16|          of the Tradition of the Church, even as the eunuch of Candice
27 I  Believe,17|                              The Church~I believe that the Church
28 I  Believe,17|        Church~I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is One,
29 I  Believe,17|         reject the idea that the Church is a form of piety that
30 I  Believe,17|        reason and ingenuity. The Church is instituted by God and
31 I  Believe,17| dissociate Jesus Christ from His Church, which is His Body. I believe
32 I  Believe,17|        man who does not have the Church for his Mother cannot have
33 I  Believe,17|          for if even in the true Church, "the righteous will scarcely
34 I  Believe,17|        those who are outside the Church. The Apostle forbids us
35 I  Believe,17|        work in parallel with the Church for the salvation of men.
36 I  Believe,17|     proportions so that the true Church may not be recognized. Therefore,
37 I  Believe,17|     fornication." Outside of the Church there is no true Baptism,
38 I  Believe,17|           be it in private or in Church, as they forbid us, under
39 I  Believe,18|                  The Head of the Church~I believe that the only
40 I  Believe,18|        only Head of the Orthodox Church is our Lord Jesus Christ.
41 I  Believe,18|       Jesus Christ. The Orthodox Church has never had, nor shall
42 I  Believe,18| universal jurisidiction over the Church, nor was the Pope of Rome,
43 I  Believe,18|        The unity of the Orthodox Church is expressed by the harmony
44 I  Believe,18|          Christ. There can be no Church without a bishop, even as
45 I  Believe,18|          Holy Spirit directs the Church and accomplishes that incomprehensible
46 I  Believe,18|          and the assembly of the Church are one and the same and
47 I  Believe,18|        has been delivered by the Church at every time, in every
48 I  Believe,18|        of the Catholicity of the Church of Christ, and not an attribute
49 I  Believe,18|         is the conscience of the Church, which, being infallible,
50 I  Believe,18|      nonetheless rejected by the Church. The Church's criterion,
51 I  Believe,18|      rejected by the Church. The Church's criterion, according to
52 I  Believe,18|        Vincent of Lerins, is the Church.~
53 I  Believe,19|                              The Church and Holy Tradition~I believe
54 I  Believe,19|          Holy Spirit directs the Church. I believe that, in the
55 I  Believe,19|           I believe that, in the Church, man cannot invent anything
56 I  Believe,19|          that the details of the Church's life bear the imprint
57 I  Believe,19|          the dissociation of the Church's profession of Faith from
58 I  Believe,19|           By the same token, the Church's disciplinary canons are
59 I  Believe,20|        The public prayers of the Church, however, are reserved exclusively
60 I  Believe,20|          who have reposed in the Church. Insofar as it depends upon