The Bible is central to Christian worship, not simply as the source for information to be taught and the basis for our shared belief, but because it is the way God grows Christians as the body of Christ. From Sinclair Ferguson. I’m not a great fan of the expression “means of grace,” but I think …
When the Gospel was rediscovered at the Reformation a focus on worship accompanied it. Paying heed to the practice of worship from the past is an insight into the impact of the Gospel on the gathered people of God. This is based on an understanding of worship as a whole as a means of grace, …
Sinclair Ferguson considers faith and repentance. Because they can be experienced differently and distinctly we might think they are separate. But that is unhelpful. From Ferguson: In grammatical terms, then, the words repent and believe both function as a synecdoche — the figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. Thus, …
If you worshipped as a Christian yesterday assured of your salvation, that’s a fruit of the Reformation. Sinclair Ferguson writes about a lesser acknowledged fruit of the Church’s great awakening, by interacting with one of its contemporary critics: Let us begin with a church history exam question. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621) was a figure not …
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