The Sovereign Love of God

K ingdomtide : A S eason of C hrist ’ s H eadship

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For YourWeekly Journey

Weekly Reflection on the Sovereign Love of God The situation of the evangelical church today is similar to that of more than one hundred years ago in America when Philip Schaff wrote in The Principle of Protestantism, “The significance of the church has been forgotten in favor of personal piety; the sacraments, in favor of faith; sanctification, in favor of justification; and tradition in its right sense, in favor of the Holy Scriptures.” What is needed is a thoroughgoing reform that will restore the historic balance of Christianity to the evangelical church. As Donald Bloesch observed in The Evangelical Renaissance, “the hope of the church certainly does not lie in new strategies, programs and techniques. Instead it lies in a rediscovery of the catholic and evangelical roots of the faith.

~ Robert E. Webber and David Neff Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith Elec. Edition, location 577.

Let God Arise! Seasonal Focus Christus Victor: Recapitulation: Christ in the OT, John 5.39

Book Reading Webber, Common Roots