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The Reformers viewed the gospel as not merely one thing among many in the life of a church but rather the means by which the church exists. When the gospel is rightly declared and applied to God’s people, the church becomes “a creature of the Word.” She understands, embraces, and lives out the reality of Christ’s birth, life, death, and resurrection in more than her doctrinal statement. The...

Easy to go there and feel so justified in bashing theology, but the reality is that everybody is a theologian; some of us have just unwittingly become heretics. Everybody has an idea about who God is and how He works. Some are just, well . . . they’re wrong, that’s all. Because just as God has never asked you to be a brainiac, neither has He asked you to simply guess what He’s like. He calls us to worship Him from both of these perspectives—in “spirit” and in “truth”—from hearts inflamed through
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