We Are Reformers

Under this persecution, many Huguenot’s left France and fled to other countries where they hoped to worship God according to their convictions rooted in the Scriptures.

Estienne’s family had fled to the Netherlands and eventually Estienne set sail with his wife for the brave New World.

Estienne was one of my ancestors and today I bear the Shinall name. A named rooted in the Protestant Reformation and Calvinist Convictions.

Its a name that now means something to me. As far as I know, I’m the first Calvinist believer in my family for generations.

And I want to live up to my name. The name my ancestors bore as they suffered, died, and fled from their homes for the Word of God.

Names matter. All of us want to have a good name.

And if we have a name of a beloved family member or a name that has special meaning, all of us want to live up to that name.

Today our church is celebrating our new name: Reformation Baptist Church. And like any good name, our prayer is that we would live up to it.

Well what does that look like?

What does it mean to be a member of Reformation Baptist Church?

That’s the question I want to answer this morning. And how I want to answer that question is by looking at our namesake.

We are named after the Protestant Reformation.

So if we want to live up to our name and honor Christ as a church moving forward, we need to know what our name means and look to the past.

The Reformation was defined and built upon the Five Solas of the Protestant faith.

Grace Alone. Faith Alone. Christ Alone. Scripture Alone. God’s glory Alone.

So if we want to carry the torch and live up to our namesake, the Solas that defined the Reformation, need to define our church as well.

How should the Solas define, give shape to, and build Reformation Baptist Church?

To see who God is calling us to be, and to see how we can live up to the name he has given us and stand as a city on a hill in a lost and dark world, let’s start point number 1...

I. The Gospel is Our Foundation

1 Peter 2:4-6 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture:

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,

a cornerstone chosen and precious,

and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

From this passage, I want you to see the core of who we are as a church.

During the Reformation, one of the chief battles, one of the most important things we fought for was “What is the gospel? How is someone saved? How is someone forgiven of all their sin and made right with God?

The Gospel of justification by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone was core to the Reformation.

Those three Solas were the foundation the Reformation was built upon, and those three Solas need to be our foundation as well.

So here’s how I want to approach 1 Peter 2:4-6. I want to look at this passage a little bit backwards.

In verses 4 and 5 Peter tells us that as Christians come to Christ they are built up into the church to worship God.

And then in verse 6 Peter quotes Isaiah 28:16, to explain that the church is forgiven of her sin and free to draw near to God solely on the basis of the work of God’s chosen and precious Messiah.

Christ is the cornerstone of the church, and the church is built on the foundation of his gospel.

So before we look at what God is building us into and expects us to be as a church, I want to look at the foundation God has laid for our church by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Peter says, Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.

In context, Isaiah 28 where Peter quotes this verse from, is a message of judgment against Old Covenant Israel for their disobedience and unbelief.

And in the face of God’s judgment, the people of Israel did not turn back to God in repentance. They did not run to him for salvation.

Instead, they put their faith and their trust in foreign alliances and military strength.

They made every effort to try to save themselves.

And God’s point is, “You can’t save yourself.” I am the only one who can save.

And God promises that salvation in the chosen and precious cornerstone, who Peter says, in verse 4, is Jesus Christ.

Its not a coincidence that Peter calls Jesus, this promised cornerstone of salvation, a living stone. He is the one who gives eternal life.

The Bible is clear. We are dead in our trespasses and sins. That because of our sin and rebellion against God, all of us, every person that has ever lived deserves judgment.

And the judgment is eternal death. It is eternal conscious torment in hell where everyone who does not repent and trust in Christ will suffer for all eternity under the full wrath of God for their sin.

And the bad news is that we cannot save ourselves.

Being a good person, going to church, doing good works, nothing we can do can earn God’s forgiveness.

We have sinned against our Creator. And as Creatures, by definition, we owe our very existence, all of who we are, to Him. To glorify him by living all of our lives for him, treasuring him for all that he’s worth.

But we took our love, and we gave it to created things. We sinned. True worship is obedience to God. Sin is false worship offered to false gods. Idols of our own making that we put our faith in hoping that in them we will have the water of eternal life.

But the truth is that even though sin promises life, it promises to quench our thirst, it only gives us death and leaves thirstier than we were before.

We need a savior!

And thanks be to God that he laid a stone. A cornerstone chosen and precious.

And God promised that whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.

That word means to be disgraced or disappointed.

What Peter is saying is that if we believe in Jesus, our hope will not be in vain. We will not fall under judgment which we justly deserve.

Instead we will be saved by God’s grace.

On the cross, Jesus was bloodied, naked, beaten and bruised. Mocked with a crown of thorns on his head, and nails through his hands and his feet.

The holy, perfect, sinless Son of God died for the sins of his people. He paid the full punishment of their sin, and rose again three days later conquering sin, Satan, and death to give his people once and for all the water of eternal life we were searching for.

Jesus said John 4:14 Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

And the only way to drink this water is through faith in Jesus Christ.

We are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

That is our foundation as a church. The good news of the gospel must be first and foremost the thing that defines who we are, because Christ is the cornerstone of our church.

That is the picture Peter gives. The church is built upon Christ. Jesus is the living stone that gives us eternal life and makes us living stones who God uses to build into a spiritual house, the church.

A new Temple where God is worshiped and dwells in the midst of his people.

Then Peter clearly says what God wants from his church. If God is building our church up on the cornerstone of Christ, what is God building us up for?

Verse 5 You are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Spiritual sacrifices are worship. The purpose of the church is to glorify God for all he’s worth through Jesus Christ.

God saved us to make us a people of for his own possession. To redeem us from sin and death to worship the One True God of life through the salvation that only comes through Jesus Christ.

That’s exactly why Peter says just a few verses later in 1 Peter 2:9-10...

1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

God saved us to celebrate and proclaim his excellencies for saving us through Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.

We are God’s people. Instead of Judgment, God has given us mercy.

He poured out the judgment we deserved on Christ in our place for our sins. And through faith in Christ, we are saved by God’s amazing grace.

Christ is our cornerstone. He is our Savior, and our church must be built upon him.

That means the gospel must be core to who we are. That the Solas of Grace Alone, Faith Alone, and Christ Alone, are our anthem cry, and the sole reason we exist.

What does it mean to be a member of Reformation Baptist Church?

First and foremost, it means we need to be a gospel church. That church isn’t just what we do on Sundays. Its who we are!

We are the people of God saved by the power, and only by the power, of his gospel, and we exist to praise God of the salvation he freely gives through faith in Jesus Christ.

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II. God’s Word is Our Highest Authority

Alongside the battle of the gospel of justification by faith alone, the Reformers also fought the battle for Scripture alone.

And this was ultimately a fight about what held the highest authority in the church?

For Catholics it was it Scripture + Tradition? The Popes and the Church held an authority that was on par and equal with the authority of the Word.

The Reformers on the other hand believed that Scripture alone had the authority to bind the consciences of believers.

In other words, Scripture alone has the authority to tells us who God is, who we are, what sin is, how God saves us in Christ and what it means to live a godly life.

Now, according to the Reformers, there are other legitimate sources of authority. There are pastors, church creeds and confessions handed down from saints that have gone before us, and even the conscience of each individual believer but all of those authorities are not the highest authority of our faith.

All of them are subject to the ultimate authority, the Word of God.

Here’s what that means for Reformation Baptist Church. We are people of the Book. That in everything we are called to submit our lives to what God’s Word says. That Scripture alone is our highest authority because Scripture is the Word of God.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

This is the go-to verse for understanding what the Bible is, and the reason for that is 2 Timothy 3:16-17 gives us a robust doctrine of the Word of God.

Inspiration

First, Scripture is inspired by God.

Paul says it is breathed out. When you speak you push breath in your lungs through your vocal chords to make words. So when Paul says Scripture is breathed out by God he is saying that Scripture is literally the voice of God.

It’s his very Word.

That means Scripture carries the full authority of God himself.

Now you might ask, “How is Scripture breathed out by God? I thought it was written by Paul or Moses or John. I thought it was written by people, godly people to be sure, but if it is written by people how is it actually the Word of God?

That’s a great question. And in our church we hold to something called Verbal Plenary Inspiration. Now that’s a five dollar theology Word so let me break it down for you.

Verbal means every word and Plenary means all the words.

So its a way of saying all of every word in the Bible is the Word of God.

But how does that work with human authors? Peter actually tells us in 2 Peter 1:20-21 No prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

So what Peter is saying is, when Paul sat down to write the book of Romans, Paul wasn’t just writing his own opinions, ideas, or personal interpretations. What he wrote was not produced by the will of man.

Rather God breathed out his Word by the power of the Holy Spirit. That in the same way wind carries a ship along the water, the Holy Spirit carried the human authors of the Bible.

The Bible is the miraculous work of the holy Spirit where the authors wrote down their own words with their own particular style and vocabulary, but at the same time their words were the exact words God wanted to write down to the smallest detail.

Scripture truly is breathed out and inspired by God.

And because that is true, Scripture is not only inspired, but it is also inerrant.

Inerrant

Because Scripture is God’s very Word, that means it is absolutely perfect and 100% true in the original autographs.

Inerrancy means that the Bible is without error in the original copies, and is wholly true in everything it says.

This makes sense. God is perfect. God never lies. Therefore his Word is perfect and his Word can never lie or lead astray.

So just in cased you missed it, the Bible is our highest authority because it is inspired by God and inerrant. It is absolutely, without a doubt, 100% true in everything it says because it is the perfect Word of God.

So, Scripture is our highest authority because it is inspired by God, absolutely inerrant and perfect in its original autographs, and finally it is sufficient for everything the church needs to know for salvation and living a godly life.

Sufficient

Paul says that the Bible is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

What that means is that God has told us everything we need to know for salvation through his Word.

We don’t need worldly philosophies or ideologies to round out and fill in the gaps of our life.

In the Scripture, God has told us everything we need to know for life and godliness. Do we want to love God, love others, and walk in holiness? Then we need to live according to the Word by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Scripture is Inspired, Inerrant, and Sufficient. It is the very Word of God and as the Word of God, must be our highest authority as a church.

Well here’s the question? What does that mean? What does it mean for God’s Word to be our highest authority at Reformation Baptist Church?

I think we can find an answer in the Words of our Lord and Cornerstone, Jesus Christ.

Matthew 4:4 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

The Word of God needs to be our food. It needs to be the bread we live all of our lives by.

I will tell you, this is not going to be easy in our day and age. The world hates God. They want nothing to do with God or anything he says.

Any time you stand for truth, you will be maligned, hated, and persecuted.

But we are called to be sons and daughters of God, not friends of the world.

Holding the Word of God as our highest authority as a church means that no matter what kind of pressure comes from the world to cave on our convictions or bend Scripture to make the gospel more appealing or tolerable to the world, we will hold fast to the Word of God.

It will be our food and our life. That the Word of God will be what defines us as a church as it always has for God’s people.

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What marks the people of God and separates them from the world is not that we abandon the world and hide within these four walls, or that we walk around like Pharisees saying I am too holy for you.

What marks the people of God off from the world is that we walk in God’s Word.

Another way to say it is that we love God with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength, by loving God’s Word and obeying God’s Word.

Holding God’s Word as our highest authority as a church means that if God says it, his Word is our life.

That as a church we are going to, as best we can, by the power of the Holy Spirit, honor God with a biblical life.

That means when we come together we are going to preach the Word, sing the Word, pray the Word, admonish, rebuke, and encourage with the Word so that in every way we feed on God’s Word and grow to maturity in Christ.

It also means that when we are tempted to bend to the world and soften what God’s Word says, that we will remember its his Word. We don’t have a right to tamper with it.

No matter how unpopular the Word of God becomes in our culture, by the grace of God we will uphold the Word knowing that in his Word God has told us the good news of salvation, and this Word proclaims the gospel that is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Romans 1:16).

What does it mean to be a member of Reformation Baptist Church?

Number 1. The Gospel is our foundation.

We are a gospel church saved by the grace of God through faith in Christ.

Number 2. God’s Word is our highest authority.

Our aim as a church whether that is as individuals and families, corporately as a body together, or in relationship to the world around us, in every area of life we hold fast to the Word as our highest authority and live all of our lives according to it.

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III. Reformation is Our Mission

We’ve been defining our church by the Solas that defined our namesake, the Reformation.

We talked about grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone when we talked about how Christ is the cornerstone of our church.

We just looked at Scripture alone by saying God’s Word alone is our highest authority.

And now as we start to ask, “What is the mission of our church?” We are looking at the last Sola. God’s glory alone.

In Habakkuk 2:14, God promises...

Now we know the heavens and the earth, the things God has made, already proclaim God’s glory everywhere they are. In all of creation. What Habakkuk is promising is that God’s glory would be known.

That he would be worshiped, treasured, honored, and glorified in all of his creation, and that includes human beings who God made in his image to glorify him.

But because of sin the Bible says we are depraved in mind and darkened in our understanding. We don’t worship God as we ought.

So we need to ask the question: How will the knowledge of the glory of the Lord cover the earth as the waters cover the sea?”

Through Jesus Christ. The knowledge of the glory of God fills the earth as sinners turn from their sin to worship God in repentance.

God’s glory fills the earth as God saves sinners.

But you ever asked yourself, “What does it mean that the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea? What does God mean there?

Well, How does the water cover the sea?” Think about it for a second. The sea is made of water. So water covers the sea entirely.

What this tells us is that God really does have the power to save sinners, and God will save sinners.

God is promising that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of his glory in the same way that the waters cover the sea.

So how is God going to carry out this mission? How is God going to fill the earth with the knowledge of his glory?

Through the church as the church proclaims the gospel to all the nations.

That’s why Jesus gave us the Great Commission. And the reason we exist is for the Great Commission.

Matthew 28:18-20 All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

People usually miss this, but the Great Commission really has three parts.

Verse 18 is the Why of the Great Commission.

Verse 19-20 is the What of the Great Commission.

And the end of verse 20 is the Guarantee of the Great Commission.

What

Let’s start with what everyone knows: The What of the Great Commission.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

The command is to make disciples. To proclaim the gospel, bring the nations to faith in Christ, that’s the baptizing, and to bring into obedience to Jesus, that’s the teaching.

The Great Commission is for us to preach the gospel and bring the nations to faith and obedience to our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

To fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord by preaching the gospel by the power of the Holy Spirit so that the nations will turn to worship him.

We want to preach the gospel so that lives are changed. So that people are freed from their sin to worship Christ and have eternal life in him.

The Kingdom of God wants to bring righteousness, holiness, justice, peace to the World. To radically transform the world through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To see the world turn from sin and death to worship and obey the One True God.

That transformation, that change, is the work of Reformation. We preach the gospel so that lives are changed and Christ is glorified.

Reformation of the world filled with love for sin to a world filled with the knowledge of the glory of God is the mission of the church.

Reformation is our mission.

Now we all know that. But the truth is most Christians and most churches look at the Great Commission with a sense of shame and guilt.

That if most of us were honest, we don’t really want to deal with the Great Commission. We wish that the gospel was just about us being saved, living a godly life, and going to heaven. We wish we only had to worry about ourselves.

So we treat the Great Commission like and obligation and a chore, that we know we should do, but if we were really honest we’d rather not.

I think the reason for that is because we have divorced the What of Great Commission from the Why and Guarantee of the Great Commission.

And Without the Why and the Guarantee, the Great Commission is reduced to little more than a chore. An act of obedience rather than a glorious mission where God promises to save sinners.

Why

Let’s look at the Why.

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,

Don’t skip the Go therefore and go straight to the command.

When Jesus says Go therefore, he is saying that the reason we are to go make disciples of all nations is because all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him.

Has been. Past tense. Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords and all the nations belong to him. So the Great Commission is really Jesus saying, “All the Kingdoms of heaven and earth are mine. Go get me the nations they belong to me.”

The Great Commission is a Kingdom Mandate.

To see the full impact of this, we need to do a little bit of leg work.

The Gospel of Matthew was written to prove to Jewish Christians that Jesus was the Christ.

That he was the promised offspring of Abraham and the Davidic King who would rule over all the nations in perfect justice and righteousness and bring healing, shalom, God’s perfect peace to the world.

So the Kingdom of God is all over the Gospel of Matthew.

In fact, Jesus’ first words of his public ministry in Matthew 4:17 Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

In Matthew 12:28 He said, “But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.”

When Pilate asked him Matthew 27:11 Are you the King of the Jews? Jesus said, “You have said so.”

And Matthew tells us they made a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and gave him a reed in his right hand as a scepter to mocked him saying Hail, King of the Jews (Matthew 27:29).

Matthew is shouting it from the rooftops, “This is the Davidic King! This is the One who will sit on the throne and rule the nations forever and ever!”

And what makes all this tie together, and start to matter for the Great Commission are the promises about this King from the Old Testament.

Genesis 49:10. All the way in the very first book of the Bible, God is telling us who this King would be.

To him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

Or look at Psalm 2.

Psalm 2:7-9 The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you. 8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Now let me ask you. When Jesus ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father after conquering once and for all sin, satan, and death, did the Son forget to ask the Father for the nations?

No. Because in the Great Commission Jesus says, Go get them. They have been given to me! I am the King of kings. I am the Lord of lords. To me belongs the obedience of all the nations.

Go tell them the gospel so they can have eternal life in my kingdom.

Now you might be starting to understand why one of Jesus’ temptations was when Satan showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory (Matthew 4:8).

The temptation was to have the glory and obedience of the nations that rightfully belonged to Christ without going through the cross.

But Jesus obeyed the Lord. Purchased our salvation in his death and resurrection, and inherited the nations as the King of kings and Lord of lords.

And now he is reigning at the right hand of the Father Psalm 110:1 until his enemies are a footstool under his feet.

Christ is conquering the nations, he is subjecting all people and all nations to himself, through the proclamation of the gospel. The Sword of his mouth.

And Jesus will receive the ends of the earth as his possession. Its as good as done. Its Guaranteed.

Guarantee

Psalm 22:27-28 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord [Do you remember God promising Christ the ends of the earth to be his possession?], and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. 28 For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

You might remember, Psalm 22 is the Psalm Jesus quotes on the cross when he said My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Its the Psalm that prophesied Christ’s hands and feet would be pierced and they they would cast lots for his clothing.

But near the end in verse 27, Christ is not the crucified Savior, he is the risen King.

What that should tell you is as sure as Christ hung on the cross with nails piercing his hands and his feet, all the families of the nations, the ends of the earth, will turn and worship the Lord.

And look at why the Psalmist says this will happen. For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

All Authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore...

The Great Commission is not a chore. Its the proclamation that Jesus is the King who is making all things new and who all the families of the earth shall worship.

Its not a chore. Its a commission of hope because God himself promises to fulfill it.

In Daniel 2, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, had a dream of a great statue. Its head was made of gold, Its chest and arms silver, torso and thighs bronze, and legs of iron with feet of iron and clay.

This statue represented 4 kingdoms of the earth. The Head of gold was Babylon. The kingdom of silver was the Medo-Persian empire that conquered Babylon.

The thighs of bronze was the Empire of Greece which conquered the Persians.

And the legs of iron and feet of iron and clay represented the Roman Empire.

And in this dream there was a stone not cut with human hands that struck the statue on its feet and broke the statue into pieces, fine as dust, and the statue was carried away by the wind.

But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth (Daniel 2:35).

The stone not cut with human hands is Christ’s kingdom. Its the kingdom of God. And just like God promised Christ’s kingdom struck the Roman Empire and destroyed in Kingdoms of the earth in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

And today, Christ kingdom is growing into a great mountain that is filling the whole earth through the Great Commission.

God is the one who cut the stone, and God is the one who will build his kingdom on the earth and the nations will turn to the Lord.

That’s exactly what Isaiah says in Isaiah 9. Jesus is Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end. There’s that kingdom growing idea. It increases from a stone into a mountain that fills the earth.

Then at the end The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

God will grow his kingdom through the church.

And Jesus himself guarantees that he will fulfill the Great Commission and bless all the families of the earth when he says...

And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

So Here’s the question. Do we believe the Great Commission will be fulfilled? I think when you read the Bible you have to say yes.

God will not fail.

Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords. He will receive his inheritance and all the families of the earth shall turn and worship the Lord.

That’s the promise! That’s what God is doing right now, and he has given us the joy of being a part of his plan to redeem all things!

The Great Commission is not a chore. Its hope!

If this is what God will do then that means everything we do for the gospel matters.

Whether we are sowing, watering, or reaping, God is building his Kingdom and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.

The Great Commission will succeed. The people of God will carry it to the end of the earth.

It will grow to be a mountain. It will leaven all the flour of the earth. And by small imperceptible daily growth it will become a tree larger than any plant in the garden.

The fields are white for harvest. Are we willing to get to work? Are willing to go into the world with hope that Christ is the King. He will disciple the nations. And all people will worship him!

This is the difference between playing church and being the church.

If Christ is with us. If the fields are white. And if God promises that all the families of the earth will be blessed in Christ. Then what are we waiting on.

Jesus is King. Let our church go get the nations.

Conclusion

What does it mean to be a member of Reformation Baptist Church?

We talked about how the gospel is our foundation.

How God’s Word is our Highest Authority.

And how Reformation is our Mission.

The Solas of Grace alone, Faith alone, Christ alone, Scripture alone, and God’s glory alone defined the Reformation.

And my prayer is that the will define us as a church. We are following the path the Reformers blazed before us.

So when you think of that question. What does it mean to be a member at Reformation Baptist Church, I hope all of us will see ourselves carrying that torch.

We are Reformers carrying out the work of Reformation.

Let our prayer be today, that we live up to our name.

Let’s Pray

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 3:14-21 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

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