What It Means to Be Reformed (8): The Church: My Chief Joy (1)

Barry Gritters explores what it means to be Reformed by examining the essential characteristic of love for the church, arguing that a proper ecclesiology is fundamental to Reformed identity. Drawing on the framework of five "C"s (Covenant, Calvinism, Church, Confessions, and Christian Life), he emphasizes that genuine Reformed commitment includes both love for the visible, instituted church and the broader body of Christ despite her imperfections. This editorial from the Protestant Reformed Churches in America provides pastoral reflection on how the doctrine of the church distinguishes and completes a Reformed theological and spiritual identity.