“…the mall is the Kingdom of Me and My Choices. The Church is the Kingdom of Christ and his grace.”

“The mall has a food court, a cinema, and all the right shops. Why can’t the church be like that? What’s wrong with it? The main thing wrong with it is that the mall is the Kingdom of Me and My Choices. The Church is the Kingdom of Christ and his grace. They’re two different [...]

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“…we are a revolutionary, egalitarian people. Whatever social benefits there may be to this way of thinking it is not the way of the kingdom of God. “

“One great difference between Reformed and modern evangelical piety is the word “mediated.” We understand God’s presence and operation in the church to be “mediated” through the Word and sacraments. Like the 16th-century Anabaptists the modern evangelicals reject or are suspicious of the idea of mediated presence or mediated revelation. Since the early part of [...]

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September 19 – “In short, what often happens to incoming students is a paradigm change, from the private, neo-Pentecostal piety to the public, Reformed piety of Word and sacrament.”

“Gradually the piety of a WSC student should evolve from the quest for illegitimate religious experience to a life of faith. We can only do so, however, by grace, and with the “due use of the ordinary means,” i.e. Word and sacrament ministry. As students mature in the faith they will begin see that one’s [...]

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