Matt points to Kevin DeYoung's definition of what it means to be reformed. Well said.
So how does that work it's way out in how I act?
At work, at play, in church, my fight against sin, my fight to believe the objective theological facts thoroughly?
""We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did. If our churches aren't appealing to younger brothers, they must be more full of elder brothers than we'd like to think." (The Prodigal God, p.15-16, Tim Keller)
Conservative: check. Oxford Button-Down: Check. Moralistic: Oh Tim, you dirty dog you.
Resource of the Day/Year/Decade
Maybe the best individual/small group Bible study on the Planet: Keller's Galatians... get the Leader's version... yeah, it's long... 13 chapters... divide each chapter into 2 meetings... so 26 weeks. Will change your life and the life of anyone you go through it with. Trust me on this.
"I have learned never to trust a man who has not had a head-snapping, bone-crushing collision with his own depravity." (Nate Larkin, Author of Samson & The Pirate Monks)
I don't pray well enough for my wife and marriage. How 'bout you?
Pat & Dave encourage: The Marriage Prayer : Download a reminder card with prayer.
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