What It Means to Be Reformed (9): The Church: My Chief Joy (2)
Gritters examines what it means to be Reformed by exploring the Reformed emphasis on loving and devotion to the true church of Jesus Christ. He contrasts Reformed ecclesiology with modern evangelical approaches, arguing that Reformed Christians must discern the true church by the marks of pure preaching of God's Word, proper administration of the sacraments, and righteous exercise of church discipline, grounding this teaching in the Reformed confessions.
Previous article in this series: October 1, 2015, p. 5. As a Reformed Christian, I love the church of Jesus Christ. And love for the church commits me, as it does all Reformed Christians, to devotion to the church. So much is devotion to God's church a part of being Reformed that, if I did not love the church, my profession of being Reformed would be empty. We saw last time that this is the teaching of the Reformed creeds. The True Church A Reformed believer's love for the church, however,...
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