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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 |
So from the beginning of Israel's national history to the promise of its recovery, the language is the language of redemption, the language of ransom from the hand of God. The hand of God will ransom my soul. God not only wanted Israel to remember that history and that promise, but God wanted Israel to be embraced by that reality in every moment of its living, and so the law is full of this language as well, that law that so often we kind of skip over quickly when we read through the five books of Moses.
Look at the way in which Psalm 49 puts a sort of refrain as it develops. Verse 12, "Man in his pomp...man in all the splendor that He can gather to Himself, all the velvet and Irwin and gold that he can wear, man in his pomp will not remain. He is like the beast that perishes." If we were doing a modern translation, we would say, You'll die like a dog. But then look how the Psalm concludes. Verse 20, "Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beast that perishes."
In really, magnificently beautiful poetical language, this Psalm (49) talks about what death is all about. Their graves are their homes forever. Their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own natives. Even the rich who are powerful enough to conquer lands and give those lands their own names--they die like everybody else. Even those who can build splendid monuments to themselves to be buried in--even if it's a pyramid 4,000 years old in Egypt, they are Indian and braves that are forever their homes.
For those younger among you, Amy Semple McPherson was probably the most famous woman in America in the 1920s and 30s, a famous Pentecostal preacher and healer, and Dr. R.C. Sproul and I have had a friendly rivalry as to who is the greater reformed expert on Amy.
Have you noticed the careful euphemisms that we use? I seldom here any more that anyone dies. They pass on--an interesting euphemism originally coined, I believe, by the Christian Scientists who deny the reality of death, and so you just pass on; you don't die. Christian Scientists had a terrible time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died. What headline should be in the Christian Scientist monitor? Headline read Truman becomes President.
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