The New Church has two essential doctrines. The first is that one God (as one person, Jesus) is to be worshiped, and the second is the obligation to live according to his commandments. "There are two essentials which constitute the church, and hence two principal things of doctrine—one, that the Lord's Human is Divine; the other, that love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor constitute the church, and not faith separate from love and charity." These "two things, the acknowledgment of the Lord, and a life according to the precepts of the Decalogue ... are the two essentials of the New Church."