confessionality.10. Small groups that meet in homes can use them as a study guide. The study of the Westminster Shorter Catechism is a useful resource for the study groups that meet in homes. These more informal character meetings always receive visitors, whether converted or not, and the comments of the participants cant create, in the development of the study, an opening for accepting the plurality of opinions as equally valid. The small group is not a small church within the church, where free thought is adopted regardless of the official doctrinal body.11. Families can add their reading in family worship . The reading of Scripture , prayer and songs added to the study of the Westminster Standards will enrich the spiritual exercise that nurtures growth. Family worship provides fellowship, education and worship in the home. If you use our doctrinal directories, certainly will forge families with healthy beliefs . Thus, build strong families will result in a vigorous church.12. The reading of statements and biblical texts contained therein is useful for daily devotional. The use of booklets for devotional purposes, while useful, may be accompanied by reading one or two questions of catechisms or paragraphs of the Confession of Faith. They are thoughts with dense biblical content that feed and prepare us to live daily in the presence of God.Can you be a member of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil and not confessional? Councils, to examine the candidate to the profession of faith or members transfer process should be selective about our confessional identity. If the applicant refuses to subscribe to our system of doctrine, he should not be received as a member of the local church. So, before the exam, it is recommended that prospective members should be made disciples, join the catechumens class and read the Westminster Standards. The rush to welcome them as a local church member is harmful, because it is necessary to help them understand what we believe, to be true, when they sincerely do their public profession of faith, before the church, in solemn worship, and, above all, before true God, that demands our yes meaning yes. Zeal should remain, in the examination of candidates for membership.I recommend reading about the practice of confessional subscription, as adopted by the Presbyterian Church of Brazil:1. Carl R. Trueman, O imperativo confessional (Brasilia, Editora Monergismo).2. David W. Hall, The practice of confessional subscription (Oak Ridge, The Covenant Foundation).3. Morton H. Smith, The case for full subscription to Westminster Standards in the Presbyterian Church in America (Greenville, GPTS).4. Ulysses Horta Simoes, A subscricao confessional - necessidade, relevancia e extensao (Belo Horizonte, Efrata Publicacoes e Distribuicao).GRADES: [1] Philip Schaff recognizes, in Scripture, the following creeds in embryonic form: Exodus 20:2-3; Deuteronomy 6:4; John 1:50; Mathew 16:16; 28:19; John 6:68; 20:28; Acts 8:37; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 6:1-2. Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom - with the history and critical notes (Grand Rapids, Baker Books, 2007), vol. 2, pp. 3-8.[2] David W. Hall, Southern Presbyterians: the virtue of confessional relaxation?". In: Joseph A. Pipa Jr., org., Confessing our hope