A conversation about believing
Rev. Jonathan Mahtani explores the parental duty to call children to repentance and faith through a dialogue between father and son. The article emphasizes the Reformed understanding of true faith as both intellectual assent and heartfelt confidence in Christ's merits, grounded in the Heidelberg Catechism and Belgic Confession, while addressing the practical application of covenant education in the home.
Rev. Jonathan Mahtani, pastor of the Hope PRC in Walker, Michigan What is true faith? True faith is not only a certain knowledge, whereby I hold for truth all that God has revealed to us in His Word, but also an assured confidence, which the Holy Ghost works by the gospel in my heart; that not only to others, but to me also, remission of sin, everlasting righteousness, and salvation are freely given by God, merely of grace, only for the sake of Christ's merits. (Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's...
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