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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.

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In Paul’s three Pastoral Epistles, he clearly presented the doctrine of radical depravity.

Paul explained that the unconverted fail to see themselves as the sinners they truly are.

Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. (1Timothy 1:8-11 ESV)
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Paul continued this examination of radical depravity in the epistles to the churches in Ephesus, and Thessalonica.

In Ephesians 4:17-19, Paul indicated that all unbelievers live in a condition of spiritual darkness.

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. (Ephesians 4:17-19, ESV)
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The same theme of radical depravity is not only conspicuous in the Book of Romans, but continues to be seen in Paul’s two epistles of the Corinthians along with his letter to the churches located in the region known as Galatia.

I Corinthians immediately begins with an extended treatise by the apostle on man’s fallen nature.
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Unquestionably, the Apostle Peter accurately denoted the sinful condition of fallen man in the Scriptures. However, so too did the Apostle Paul.

Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is a hallmark by the apostle concerning the sovereign grace of God and the radical depravity of man. Within the epistle are the following characteristics of man’s total depravity.
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The Apostle Peter clearly acknowledged the culture of corruption that man encounters originates within himself. Sinful man must lay the blame for all the evil in the world to the source of that evil: his fallen and sinful soul.

Peter wrote that all people, including believers prior to their salvation, were engulfed in spiritual darkness. “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy” (1 Peter 2:9-10, ESV).