As is especially evident in today’s context, it’s one thing to adopt a confession and quite another to be confessional’ to think, witness, live, and worship consistently with our profession. A confession can be a historical document that we leave in the vault most of the time, or it can be a living witness to God’s unchanging gospel from generation to generation. Furthermore, a confession can be reduced to a legal contract we use to exclude brothers and sisters, or it can be a family covenant that unites us, a hymn that the saints sing to lure others to the feast. In the first use, a confession threatens to usurp Scripture’s normative authority; in the second approach, it is the “amen” of Christ’s body to the Word of its Living Head. Read more»
Michael S Horton | “Confessional” | November 1, 2011
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