I was brought to a saving knowledge of Christ in 1989. I was raised in a nominal Catholic home, having enough knowledge to fear God, but not enough to embrace Jesus. I was exposed to the simplicity of the gospel at a mid-week church gathering as a teenager. Through the preached Word, both the gravity of sin and the greatness of God’s grace in Jesus seized my heart.
The terms "confessionalism" and "pietism" can refer to historical movements within Christendom. Or they may denote two opposite emphases or tendencies related to Christian doctrine and experience. Historically, "confessionalism" has been associated with Protestant denominations that place a great deal of priority on doctrinal orthodoxy and creedal subscription, as well as on proper form and ritual in liturgical practice.
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Reformed Baptist Seminary asked Pastor Matt Foreman to give eight lectures on the topic of worship and church ministry. Parts one and two of Matt's lecture series consist of a redemptive historical survey or overview of worship in the Bible. He explains the relationship between worship as a way of life and corporate worship in part three. The fourth and fifth parts of his series focus on the regulative principle of worship and
In case you haven’t noticed, the doctrine of justification by faith alone (sola fide) is under attack. A growing number of modern scholars are conflating faith and obedience, confusing faith’s mode of operation in justification with its mode of operation in sanctification. This “new perspective” is based in part on a faulty reading of Genesis 15:6 where we read, “And [Abram] believed the LORD, and [God] counted it to him as righteousness” (ESV). What Luther and Calvin interpreted as a simple act of faith in God’s promise, some modern scholars are construing as a more complex demonstration of the patriarch’s faithfulness to God’s expectations.
For a recent theological module on church ministry, Reformed Baptist Seminary invited Pastor Chad Clint to address the subject of “community,” sometimes known as the church’s “body life.” Chad gave three lectures in all. In the first lecture, he discusses the importance of the church being a missional community that roots its ministry in the church’s own identity. He suggests various practical ways that we can cultivate and carry out missional community in the church in the second lecture. Then, in the third lecture,
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