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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 |
When we talk about propitiation, we're talking about what the blood of Jesus did for the Father. He satisfies the demands of God's justice. In propitiation, the atonement of Christ is looking towards the Father, to satisfy His justice, to satisfy His holiness, that the Father may be just and the justifier. So propitiation looks toward that action of satisfaction that the atonement of Christ accomplishes. But it does more than that.
Do you remember the very first act of redemption that God made for His people? Do you remember the very first experience of guilt that any human being ever had? There in the garden when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, we were told that instantly their eyes were opened, and they realized that they were naked, and they were ashamed. They became the first fugitives. They fled from God’s presence.
Let's look at a few of these images, going back to the Passover. When God instructs the children of Israel to take the unblemished lamb or goat and take its blood and spread it on the doorposts of their houses, He says to them, the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you and no plague will befall you to destroy you. Do you know what happened that night?
What if Jesus offered to pay our debt and the Father was not willing to accept His payment. All of His blood would not be enough to atone for our sins. It's only because the Father in all eternity has been determined to accept the payment of that blood sacrifice, that that debt can be erased once and for all.
If you had the opportunity yet to see Ben Stein's movie "Expelled" and you come to the final scene of that movie where he's interviewing a famous British atheist, Richard Dawkins, and turns Dawkins upside down, and he finally just looks at him and says, Richard, what are you going to see if when you die, you wake up and God is standing there?
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