Sunday is "Reformation Sunday" celebrating
in a strange way.... i think the way you honor your fathers in the faith is to seek to do in your generation what they did in theirs... NOT seek to bring their style of ministry & life into OUR generation.... so the way you show you are reformed is by not talking about being reformed but by being zealous for the same things they were... and one of those is the glory of God.
(October 31 is typically known as Reformation Day)
helpful stuff:
--Woltersdorff quote (that dude has THE HARDEST name to spell!)
--JI Packer's preface to John Owen's DEATH OF DEATH in the death of Christ
-- the God Alone class CCC is offering 'rat now' on Sundays at 9am
Showing posts with label Reformed Theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reformed Theology. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
On Being Reformed
i am forever returning to this quote to broaden my understanding of what it means for a Christian or a church to be "reformed".....
“It’s a style of life that gives prominence to the conviction that God is creator; hence it is that
we give thanks to God for the goodness that surrounds us. Secondly, it incorporates a deep and powerful sense of the fallenness of all things, understood in such a way that there is a strong impulse to resist all attempts to draw lines in the sand, with the explanation that human fallenness occurs on this side of the line and not on that side of the line. Fallenness runs throughout our entire existence—indeed, through the cosmos.
Corresponding to this comprehensive view of sin is then an equally comprehensive view of faith and salvation... In short, I think that at the heart of the Reformed tradition is a passion for totality, for wholeness, for integrity, for not allowing life to fall into bits and pieces but to constantly ask, ‘What does my faith—what does the gospel of Jesus Christ—have do with this and what does it have to do with that?’ And then never being content with the answer, ‘Nothing!’” --Nick W.
--more much more to post
“It’s a style of life that gives prominence to the conviction that God is creator; hence it is that
we give thanks to God for the goodness that surrounds us. Secondly, it incorporates a deep and powerful sense of the fallenness of all things, understood in such a way that there is a strong impulse to resist all attempts to draw lines in the sand, with the explanation that human fallenness occurs on this side of the line and not on that side of the line. Fallenness runs throughout our entire existence—indeed, through the cosmos.
Corresponding to this comprehensive view of sin is then an equally comprehensive view of faith and salvation... In short, I think that at the heart of the Reformed tradition is a passion for totality, for wholeness, for integrity, for not allowing life to fall into bits and pieces but to constantly ask, ‘What does my faith—what does the gospel of Jesus Christ—have do with this and what does it have to do with that?’ And then never being content with the answer, ‘Nothing!’” --Nick W.
--more much more to post
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