I would probably include the words: Trinity, fully human and fully divine,

When questioned on the floor, someone will probably ask why you don’t flat out mention Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as such. Might even ask, if you will say such when you baptize someone:)

How about adding something about being missional–serving others–Matthew 25ish?

Just throwing out some thoughts.

I am so happy to be done with the process—the Statement, the hoops, the Ords. I am having serious 2001 flashbacks:)

May God continue to give you endurance as you run the ordination marathon.

I love reading peoples statement of faith – such a window into their core convictions (or of what they think needs to be said to satisfy orthodoxy). I love the emphasis on story and ecclesiology. For what its worth: the absence I notice is any reference to Abraham or Israel, the beginning place of God’s redemptive work in the world which climaxed in Christ and is still being felt through Christ’s Body the church. Reformed theology stresses the connection and continuity of Old and New Testaments and covenants.

It is a good place. You will do well. Congratulations on your ordination!

Nicely done, Adam! I’m looking forward to your ordination!
You could say more about baptism, but

1) Your understanding of the church seems interestingly “voluntarist” for a Presbyterian — as if people just decide to get together and be the church.

2) The church as “place” language communicates something I’m guessing you don’t want to communicate. I know you mean it metaphorically, but most people don’t. Be careful locating the church as a geography.

3) “We bring about the kingdom of God” — really? Or do we witness to the inbreaking Kingdom? Testifying to that which we can’t bring about, but with which we can cooperate? You speak later about the fully-realized Kingdom, but here you’re making it sound like it’s all about the action of the church, and that it’s possible for humans to bring the kingdom about. Later you say the kingdom will “one day come” — how? by whose action?

4) I’m sure that the Lord is SUPER, but it’s spelled SUPPER. ;-)

5) Your brief statement on baptism can also be interpreted in a really voluntarist way. Do we make ourselves part of the body of Christ by choosing to be baptized? Do our parents make us such by getting us sprinkled as infants? Or, in baptism does God bring us into the covenant community, the body of Christ? In short, what is divine action, what is human action in baptism?

6) I wouldn’t restrict the remembrance of God’s work in the Lord’s Supper to just remembrance of the cross. Nearly all the ancient liturgies, and present Presbyterian liturgy, understands the remembrance in the Lord’s Supper to be remembrance of the birth, death, crucifixion, resurrection, and second-coming of Christ (yes, memory of a future event).

There’s some great stuff in this statement, like your connection of sacraments and mission, but the above represent the places that stood out to me as those that might create friction with Presbyterian-types.