So worship is all about Him: giving Him praise, giving Him our hearts, listening to Him speak to us through the Scriptures, singing to Him. —Derek W.H. Thomas https://t.co/H4e1lo0Nc5
Colocaram na cabeça de muitos que afirmar 5 pontos é suficiente para ser "reformado". Hoje colhemos os frutos: alguns migrando para outras tradições em busca de substância litúrgica; outros causando problemas porque nunca aprenderam o que é vida eclesial. Dois dedos de reforma.
Here's a reminder that the covenant formula is threefold, not twofold:
1) I will be your God
2) you will be my people
3) I will dwell in your midst
Sometimes one element alone is mentioned, other times two, and other times all three (Exod 29:45-46; Zech 8:3,8; Rev 21:3).
@mglodorts Yes. After all, what would be the purpose of instruction if not worship? Images of Christ cannot be permitted as a lawful pedagogical means, for they directly and inevitably affect the worship of God.
“Adam's sin in Eden involved disbelieving the word of God and pride in thinking he knew better than God. Adam sinned by pursuing illicit pleasure and by disregarding the consequences of sin.”
— Kevin DeYoung
God is to be worshipped not merely with the inward affection of the heart, but also by outward profession, if we would render to him what is his due.
—Calvin, Commentary on Philippians 2:5
“Crer em [na] existência de Deus não parte de nosso próprio desejo; o fato de que Ele existe é o que desperta o nosso desejo.”
James W. Sire, ‘Por Que Bons Argumentos Não Funcionam?’, p. 44
The Gospel differs from the Law in this, that it does not confine justification to works, but places it entirely in the mercy of God.
—Calvin, Institutes 3.11.18
“We [assumed] if we surrendered the confession, we could keep the creed;
then, if we surrendered the creed, we could keep a few fundamentals.
At the end of the line arrives a generation that does not even know enough of its legacy to be aware when it is straying.”
- Michael Horton
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“[…] o objetivo da regeneração é que na vida dos fiéis se faça evidente harmonia e conformidade entre a justiça de Deus e sua obediência, e dessa forma confirmem a adoção em virtude da qual foram recebidos por filhos.”
João Calvino, As Institutas, III, vi, 1
What is most attractive about Reformed theology is its exegesis. In the Reformed tradition, there's an intelligent, and often creative, appropriation of the best of Christian philosophy. But, at the end of the day, a tradition stands or falls on its exegesis of Holy Scripture.