Covenant Reformed News – July 2014 • Volume XV, Issue 3
This article from Covenant Reformed News addresses the church's proper response to urban wickedness and Satan's influence in cities, specifically responding to "New Calvinism" criticisms that traditional Reformed churches have abandoned metropolitan mission work. The author defends creedal Calvinism and the Canons of Dort while arguing for continued Christian engagement in cities rather than retreat, examining the relationship between Reformed theology, worldliness, and missional responsibility.
Pergamos: A Church Dwelling Where Satan’s Throne Is (3) Having considered the wickedness of Pergamos (Rev. 2:13) and other cities famous for sin in both biblical and modern times in the last two issues of the News, we now need to ask the question, What is, and ought to be, our response? Should Christians vacate the cities? Should churches leave metropolitan areas or at least the most wicked ones, the ones showing most evidence of being places where Satan has a throne? Should the church cease...