article 13

1833

The New Hampshire Confession of Faith

TRANSLATED INTO CHEROKEE

ca. 1880 by unidentified translators

published in 1880 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma

XIII. Of a Gospel Church ᎣᏍᏛ ᎧᏃᎮᏛ ᎪᏪᎵ ᎤᏃᎯᏳᎯ ᏧᎾᏁᎶᏗ ᎤᎾᏓᏡᎬᎢ

We believe that a visible church of Christ is a congregation of baptized believers,

associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the ordinances

of Christ; governed by his laws; and exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in

them by his word; that its only scriptural officers are bishops or pastors and deacons

whose qualifications, claims and duties are defined in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus.

I Cor. 1:1-3; Matt. 18:17; Acts 5:11; Acts 8:1; Acts 11:21-23; I Cor. 4:17; I Cor. 14:23;

III John 9; I Tim. 3:5; Acts 2:41-42; II Cor. 8:5; Acts 2:47; I Cor. 5:12-13; I Cor. 11:2; II

Thess. 3:6; Rom. 16:17-20; I Cor.11:23-24; Matt. 18:15-20; I Cor. 5:6; II Cor. 2:17; I

Cor. 4:17; Matt. 28:20; John 14:15; John 15:12; I John 14:21; I Thess. 4:2; II John 6; Gal.

6:2; Eph. 4:7; I Cor. 14:12; Phil. 1:1; Acts 14:23; Acts 15:22; I Tim. 3; Titus 1