The True Faith
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 3:11
We hold to the faith once delivered to the saints — the plain Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the narrow way of which He spoke. The old Anabaptist hymn below, from the 16th-century Ausbund, has sung this truth for centuries.
Ausbund, Hymn No. 125
There Are Two Ways
There are two ways in this, our day,
One narrow and the other broad;
Who now will go the narrow way
Will be despised by all abroad.
This plainly God’s Word teaches us,
The narrow entrance way go in;
Strait is the gate, who enter thus,
Must first endure great suffering.
Thereafter, there’s eternal rest,
Therefore, O man, thy way prepare,
Wilt thou be in God’s kingdom blessed
Eternally with righteous there.
O, take the strait and narrow way
That thou the lasting crown obtain,
Which God doth but His church convey
Which He hath cleansed from sin and stain.
From the 16th-century Anabaptist Ausbund, Hymn No. 125 — translated by John J. Overholt