I have heard countless times that “nowhere in the Bible (which often is code for ‘there is something that Christians have taught for generations that I don’t want to do’) is church membership taught.” This “chapter and verse” hermeneutic, while seeming to nobly give Scripture its rightful authoritative place, is actually, as we shall see, […]
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Part III: Westminster Standards, Continued In part two, we began to look at the contribution of the Westminster divines in relation to worship and images. We looked at relevant chapters and sections, questions and answers, that dealt with the human relationship and response to God in worship and images. Part three here will focus alone
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Part II: Westminster Standards In the first part of this series, we at Reformed Dogmatika talked about what we planned on doing in this series: to deal with true worship and particularly, the concept of images from a Biblical, Theological, and Confessional perspective. We will do this at the start through a quick guide Reformed
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Worship is a vital part of the Christian life, in fact, the most important facet of our life. It is how both the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms direct us on what our proper end is: “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” If this is what makes us most
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