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Reformation means standing against the spirit of the age, so pastors and church leaders must join together to encourage, equip, and embolden one another in the work of the Reformation. Most importantly, a society brings the Word of God and prayer to bear on the leaders themselves, strengthening them for the work of a faithful shepherd. |
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Reformation starts in your local church community. The Reformation Societies are the means to achieving the renewal of the Church, which is our Lord’s Bride. Furthermore, our Gospel is timeless in its message, relevance, and sufficiency for the building of Christ’s Church, the same yesterday, today, and forever. The Biblical standard of Gospel preaching, teaching and worship are embodied in the Solas of the Protestant Reformation and are now stated in the Cambridge Declaration of 1996. For in Scripture alone, we learn of a salvation that is by grace alone, received through faith alone, because of Christ alone, and in all this, to God be the Glory alone. Here We Stand, like-minded in His service and confident in His Work. |
List of active Reformation Societies. Reformation Society Coordinator |
The POETICAL and WISDOM books of the Old Testament also testify of the importance of Scripture Alone being the believer’s final authority.
God clearly communicates that His Word is the final authority in all matters. It is not to be tampered with in any way. Biblical texts in the Old Testament LAW and HISTORICAL books declaring this include:
Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) means that Scripture alone is the believer’s preeminent authority. It is the final influence by which the Christian’s conscience is bound. It is the believer’s understanding and commitment that anything besides Scripture including feelings, passions, church traditions and teachings, along with personal convictions are secondary to God’s Word being the ultimate authority within the believer’s life. Dr. Michael Horton writes, “Scripture not only has the final say, but it is the formal principle of everything we believe about doctrine and conduct” (Sola Scriptura xvi).
“We live in a world filled with competing truth claims. Every day, we are bombarded with declarations that something is true and that something else is false. We are told what to believe and what not to believe. We are asked to behave one way but not another way. In her monthly column “What I Know for Sure,” Oprah Winfrey tells us how to handle our lives and our relationships. The New York Times editorial page regularly tells us what approach we should take to the big moral, legal, or public-policy issues of our day. Richard Dawkins, the British atheist and evolutionist, tells us how to think of our historical origins and our place in this universe.”
Dr. Phillip Ryken states that whenever God accomplishes victory over the enemies of His people, the people of God under the inspiration of the Spirit in the Old Testament will compose a song of deliverance. The horse and his rider has he throne into the sea. With the song of Debra, the stars in the courses fought against Cicera. Again and again we see these phenomena. We see a concentration of it in the early infancy narratives of the birth of our Lord, particularly in Luke's Gospel. The Benedictus of Zacharias, the Magnificat of Mary, my soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit doth rejoice in God my Savior, the song of Simeon when he beholds the Messiah singing the Nuncdimittis “ now lettest though thy servant depart in peace for I've seen the consolation of Israel.”