Covenant Reformed News – March 2018 • Volume XVI, Issue 23
This article from Covenant Reformed News articulates a comprehensive Reformed ecclesiology covering church polity, sacraments, worship principles, and discipline, while acknowledging the practical challenges and costs believers face when seeking to reform their congregations toward biblical standards. The author argues that despite these difficulties, maintaining proper ecclesiastical structure and practice is essential to the church's identity as a pillar of truth.
Reformed Ecclesiology: Costly but Worth It! A major reason for the widespread disinterest in ecclesiology and the low views that many hold regarding Christ’s church is that ecclesiology is often, from a very practical perspective, the most costly truth for evangelical Protestants. Consider the various elements in the biblical, Reformed and confessional doctrine of the church: God’s election, gathering and preservation of the church; Christ’s sole headship over His church; the four attributes...