Covenant Reformed News – September 2004, Volume X, Issue 5
This article from Covenant Reformed News expounds on the church's role as "the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15-16), arguing that the church's calling is to uphold and proclaim God's truth as revealed in Scripture, centered supremely on Christ as "the way, the truth, and the life." The piece traces how the church has fulfilled this duty historically through preserving, copying, and translating Scripture, citing figures like Jerome, Luther, Tyndale, and the translators of the Authorized Version.
The Church, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth (2) The church’s calling in the world is to uphold the whole truth of God set forth in the 66 books of sacred Scripture, including not only the attributes of God, the wickedness of man, the irresistible grace of the Holy Spirit, the Lord’s covenant with believers and their seed, etc., but also the Christian’s duty “to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with” his God (Mic. 6:8). From I Timothy we learn that the church must testify...