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Covenant and Commandment: Works, Obedience and Faithfulness in the Christian Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

The heirs of the Protestant Reformation have emphasized salvation by grace in general and sola fide (“by faith alone”) in particular. It was important for the church to recover the central biblical truth that we are justified by God, that this is an act of God’s grace, and that faith–apart from works–is the means by which we are justified. A related issue is the nature of works–obedience or...

superfluous.’1 My contention is that indeed there are resources within Scripture that affirm both sola fide and the necessity of works, obedience and faithfulness. Berkouwer’s note, perhaps, rings true with those of us in evangelical churches. We are rightly concerned to affirm a central truth like sola fide, but have not always articulated what it means to live obedience-filled lives, and to see practical faithfulness as a part of what it means to be a Christian. I suspect that some of our difficulty
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