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My 2023 Prayer for Our Country

Stan and Carol Ponz
January 3, 2023 by Stan Ponz No Comments

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Dearest Heavenly Father,

What a challenging year 2022 has been for everyone. It seems we all know someone who lost family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and classmates to the pandemic or maybe even to violence. There were verbal battles and lost friendships due to positions on social concerns and other issues like critical race, gender meanings, vaxing or not vaxing, masks or no masks, global warming or climate change, and being politically red or blue or even purple. Then there were theological divisions between reformed positions, free grace, creationism, and a host of other conflicts.

There is increasing hostility about homelessness, racism, law enforcement, and crime. Then there are natural” catastrophes like monster hurricanes, severe flooding, raging fires, devastating tornadoes, and deep freezes.

All these have brought a sense of human hopelessness.

The pain of 2022 has been portrayed on the front pages of our newspapers and in the auditoriums of our churches. According to a Barna statistic, 38% of U.S. pastors, with 46% of those under age 45, have considered resigning in 2021. If the trend continues, those statistics will only worsen for 2022 and will continue to get even worse in 2023!  

Then we have the black eye given to the Bride of Christ, the Church. She has been led by too many pastors, Christian leaders, apologists, and evangelists, who have sinned with greed, moral impurity, worldly styles, and dictatorship-style leadership. These and many more have denigrated your Name in front of all the people of the world.

Dearest Father, in addition to all these appalling leanings, we are losing the next generation if most of that generation has not been lost already. Two studies we read conducted again by the Barna Group and USA Today found that nearly 75 percent of Christian young people leave the faith and the Church after high school. Intellectual skepticism is one of the main reasons. But how many of these young people were accurately taught the Bible in their homes or churches? Statistics have shown that adolescents today are sitting in school an average of 30 hours per week, often watching television, bombarded by commercials and sitcoms, playing video games, or connecting on social media. All these contrasts with the time spent weekly in the church classroom or worship service: 45 minutes. Generation Z has been identified as “the first post-Christian generation in the history of the United States.”

Here’s my prayer, oh heavenly Father, for our country in 2023: Would you revitalize your Church to rally young people to be sound in the faith once delivered to the saints so long ago to evangelize their world today? Would you light up the parents and adults with the brilliance of the truth of God’s Word that would ignite the new generation of young people with the power of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit?

Prepare a new generation of pastors who will model true Christlikeness, minister to those who are disenfranchised, mentor the next generation of spiritual influencers, message the flock of God with the accuracy, clarity, and urgency of the gospel and God’s Word, and manage the affairs of the Church and ministry with honesty, decency, and integrity.

Prepare a new generation of parents who listen to God, learn from God, lean on God, and live for God to be the examples of holiness, and then teach and train their children in God’s Word.

Prepare a new generation of teenagers who stand strong and last long for the cause of the Great Commandment of loving God and others and the Great Commission of presenting the message of salvation by faith alone in Christ and then growing to become fully obedient worshippers of God.

May this prayer not just begin a movement with a Biblical message but be echoed across our country and around the world!

Please, dear Father, use Make It Clear Ministries, Clarity Christian College, and other like-minded ministries and churches to heal your Church, our nation, and this world until Jesus’ soon return.

I ask these things in the Name of and for the glory of our mighty Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ!

Amen.

Dr. Stan Ponz
President Make It Clear Ministries and Clarity Christian College

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The Foundations of Freedom

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July 4, 2022 by Stan Ponz No Comments

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In the LORD I put my trust; how can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”? For look! The wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart. If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? The LORD is in His holy temple, the LORD’S throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain coals; fire and brimstone and a burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.

Psalms 11:1 – 7

Preparing for a very important election year in 2022 and again in 2024 has reminded me again why the Foundations of our Freedom need to be remembered and realized.  I would like us to be prepared for decisions we will make as we are given the right and privilege to vote for future candidates and on issues that will affect our lives.  That is one of the main reasons I want to write on the subject, The Foundations of Freedom.

Have you ever had someone, or a group of well-intended friends or families try to give you counsel based on their own bias?  I have.  How did it work out for you?

This is exactly what was happening with David.  He makes a statement of his unshakable trust in the Lord as His refuge during times of challenge.  Then it appears his “counselors” respond in panic with advice and support… their lack of faith is revealed in how they responded.

Let’s take a moment and see what is going on in this Psalm of David…Psalm 11:3 – 7.

The pivotal verse may very well be verse 3… “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”  Perhaps the best translation from the Hebrew and interpretation of this verse is done by Joseph Alexander in the classic three volume commentary, The Psalms: Translated and Explained; first published in 1850 and printed again by Baker Book House in 1975.  On page 53 Alexander wrote…

The year was 1833. The place was the island of Jamaica, the Crown Colony of the British Empire. The issue was the abolition of slavery. Although the British considered Jamaica an important resource to their empire, their Parliament had voted to set the nation free. A date was set, and the island slaves waited for their freedom with great anticipation.

Finally, the morning came, and as the rays of the sun announced the day, across the Island could be heard the song, “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, free at last.”

Likewise, there is a song of freedom at the heart of the American spirit. We are a nation founded upon the idea of Freedom.

Our Constitution declares we were established:

“To secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and those who would follow.” Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address declared our nation to have been, “conceived in liberty”. Freedom and America are synonymous terms.

But true freedom never comes apart from God. Our Forefathers understood and acknowledged that vital truth. That is why when they establish this land, they made sure that America was built on solid foundations from the Word of God.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR FREEDOM.

John 8:32 “And you will know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.”

A clear understanding of the truths of life, morality, honesty, and social order are best found in the Bible. The teachings of no other document more plainly describe the principles upon which nations build a civilized society.

These Biblical principles have come to be known as the Judeo-Christian Ethic. And although they are numerous and found throughout the Bible, we will look at seven of the most basic ones that have undoubtedly served as foundations for our great nation.

America’s Founding Fathers gave us the country’s founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and others. For them to form such documents, they had to lean upon some common understanding of law, government, social order, and a basic moral code. These understandings sprang from a common acceptance of what has come to be known as the Judeo-Christian Ethic. The term “Judeo-Christian” refers to “the influence of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament on one’s system of values, laws and ethical code.” It is not just a system of theological thought, but a culture of values as seen in one’s individual’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Some would argue that a few of our nation’s Founding Fathers were not Christians; some were Deists. Whether they were Christians or not, their writings, words and votes indicate that the vast majority of them embraced the Judeo-Christian Bible as the basis for a civilized society and social order. It is especially important during these days of rampant pluralism and situation ethics that we pastors (and our people) remember these same anchors of faith and values that are brought to us through the Word of God.

Although there are many biblical principles from which our Judeo-Christian values spring, I have selected seven biblical principles that seem to have the greatest relevance in America’s past and present. These “common sense” values provide moral balance in a seemingly unbalanced world.

Principle #1 – The Dignity and Sanctity of Human Life

Exodus 20:13, “You shall not murder.”
Matt 22:39, “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

The Scriptures emphatically teach the great importance of the respect and preservation of human life. In the Declaration of Independence, our nation’s Founding Fathers wrote that every man, woman, and child have the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” We Americans not only believe this for our land, but we also send our brave men and women in our military forces across the world to defend the rights of those whose lives are threatened. 

When we believe and understand that every human being has measureless worth that does away with bigotry, racism, self-centeredness and all the rest that goes along with it. If people and nations do not grant this respect and protection for the born and unborn, all other professed morals and values are meaningless, because they are no longer undergirded by the most basic of human needs—the need to exist.  FACT: 79,817 abortions were performed in Florida in 2021.The dignity of human life is not just a principle of the Bible—it is the beginning principle of any civilized society.

Principle #2 – The Traditional Family

Genesis 2:21 – 24, “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

The biblical view of marriage and family is the basis of our society and serves as the backbone of a healthy social order. The clear plan of God involves a man and a woman producing children within the institution of marriage. Since the joining together of Adam and Eve, marriage has been defined as a holy union between one man and one woman, and out of that union comes children born into a loving home with a father and a mother to nurture them and teach them how to become healthy, productive, and responsible citizens.

God instituted the traditional family defined as one man and one woman. If this marriage is blessed with children, those children have the rights to a godly and secure home with a dad and mom.

When God’s definition of “marriage” and “family” are no longer respected, these institutions become meaningless. World history has proven over and again that preserving the traditional family is vital to the future of any great nation.

Principle #3 – A National Work Ethic

2 Thessalonians 3:10, “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.”

Meaning that people should work for their own livelihood and the welfare of others. We are not to be dependent upon the government for our livelihood. Ingrained deep within the American spirit is the willingness and desire to give an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. This independent spirit has no desire to exist on handouts from the government or siphon off a living from benevolence or friendships. And it is this independent spirit that has allowed America to create the greatest and strongest economy in the history of the world.

True, Americans have had their challenges. The Great Depression of the 1930s knocked us to our knees, but it did not beat us. Americans, hand-in-hand and heart-to-heart helped one another and lifted our nation back to economic might.

The powers of the world may look at our nation and ask where this spirit of honest labor came from. Where did this work ethic originate in the American psyche? It came from the men and women before us who were raised to believe the principles of honest work found throughout the Word of God.

Principle #4 – The Right to A God-Centered Education

Deuteronomy 6:1 – 7, “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you—“a land flowing with milk and honey.’ “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.”

We read in Proverbs 1:7 that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” One cannot possibly understand the creation without first knowing its Creator.

Our forefathers certainly understood this. For example, did you know that most of America’s oldest and most respected universities—such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth—were founded by Christian preachers or churches?

Harvard University, founded in 1636, adopted “Rules and Precepts” which included the following: “Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life.” The university’s original seal has upon it these words: “Truth for Christ and the Church.”

In addition, the first textbook for school children, The New England Primer, taught the ABCs to children by instructing them to memorize: “A—In Adam’s fall, we sinned all. B—Heaven to find, the Bible mind.”

This does not mean that all schools should be Christian, but it does mean the recognition of the Creator God.

Today’s youth are tomorrow’s future. Our nation’s first president, George Washington, reminded us of the importance of a God-centered education when he said, “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle…it is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”

Principle # 5 – Recognizing the Abrahamic Covenant

Genesis 12:1 – 3, “Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Galatians 3:7 “Therefore, know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.”

Psalms 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord…”

The book of Genesis records the story of God coming to Abraham and making a covenant with him. Meaning that a Nation under God was a nation which was especially blessed above all the nations of the world.

The basis of this covenant was that, if Abraham would follow God in obedience to His laws and commandments, God would bless Abraham with generations of children that would outnumber the stars in the heavens (Gen. 15:5). Abraham believed God and obeyed His Word, and God rewarded him with a nation of people known as the Jews.

The Abrahamic Covenant states that if a person or a nation obeys God, observing the moral truths found in the Bible, that person or nation will be blessed.  If they disobey, they will bring punishment upon themselves. For most of our nation’s history, Americans have accepted as fact that good deeds produced good results, that people who were “God-fearing” and respectable in language and lifestyle would be blessed by God. This fact has been proven to be true time and again. The writer of Proverbs tells it plainly, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).

Principle #6 – Common Decency

Matthew 22:39 “The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Simply put, decent nations are made up of decent people who, when faced with a situation, would do the decent and honest thing. For the most part, this has been the experience of our national history. For example, Americans have given their lives in wars on foreign soil so that others might taste freedom. Americans have worked to feed the world’s poor and hungry, to clothe the naked and aid the crippled. Americans have opened their arms to many of the world’s oppressed peoples and allowed them safe harbor upon our shores.

Engraved on the pedestal on which stands the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor are these words by Emma Lazarus:

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

A world-renowned symbol of freedom, this Statue reminds us all that America has indeed been, and continues to be today, a nation of common decency.

Principle #7 – Our Personal Accountability to God

Hebrews 9:27 “…it is appointed for men to die once but after this the judgment.”

Perhaps the greatest restraint for acts of evil against one’s fellow man is the realization that every person and every nation of people will one day give an account for their actions to Almighty God. Certainly, the Bible tells that we are responsible for our actions, and we will be held accountable for what we do or don’t do. Also, there is a penalty for doing wrong to our fellow man, and there is a blessing when we do that which is right, noble, and just.

The story is told of Daniel Webster, the great American statesman who was once asked, “What is the most sobering thought that ever entered your mind?” He quickly responded, “My personal accountability to God.” Daniel Webster knew that one day he would stand before God in eternity and give an account for his actions. The same applies to every man, woman, and nation.

The Founding Fathers knew that these and other principles of Scripture are essential for the preservation of our national freedom.

America has been blessed as a nation in a particular way. We are not a special people above all other nations—not at all—but God’s blessings have certainly been given to us, because for the greater part of our history, a greater part of our people have honored and obeyed the teachings of the Bible. What is true for us is true for all others who choose it, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD” (Ps 33:12).

THE GREATEST FREEDOM OF ALL

Upon our coinage is stamped these words: “E PLURIBUS UNUM” It is Latin meaning: “From Many — One” America is nation of ones. For the “Land” to be free, the people must be free!

That is the message of the Gospel. Jesus told us the reason He had come into the world to set men free. Certainly, Christ is the greatest Freedom Fighter this world has ever known!

Galatians 5:1 (NIV), “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm…”

Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from law of sin and death.”

FREE from SIN…  

Think about it… No longer do sin and the weight of sin control our lives. No longer are we controlled by the World, the Flesh and Devil. We become free to live our own lives for the very first time.

FREEDOM from DEATH…

Death no longer has control over us, for through Christ we have conquered Death, Hell, and the Grave.

Are you free today? I’m not talking about political or social freedom but spiritual freedom. Eternal freedom.

Have you been set free by Christ? You can make your eternal proclamation of Freedom today. Place your faith alone in Jesus Christ (The real foundation for freedom) and He will become your Savior. Allow Him to Set You Free!

Even if our country no longer holds to any or all the seven biblical principles that have the greatest relevance in America’s past and present, we can remain free in Christ!

Thank you to Dr. Richard Lee for information used in the preparation of this article.

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The 500TH Anniversary of The Reformation

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June 1, 2017 by Stan Ponz No Comments

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Historians usually date the start of the Protestant Reformation to Martin Luther’s publication of “95 Theses” posted on the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg Germany on October 31, 1517. Its ending can be placed anywhere from the 1555 Peace of Augsburg, which allowed for the coexistence of Catholicism and Lutheranism in Germany, to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War. The key ideas of the Reformation—a call to purify the church and a belief that the Bible, not tradition, should be the sole source of spiritual authority—were not themselves novel. However, Luther and the other reformers became the first to skillfully use the power of the printing press to give their ideas a wide audience.

Did You Know?

No reformer was more adept than Martin Luther at using the power of the press to spread his ideas. Between 1518 and 1525, Luther published more works than the next 17 most prolific reformers combined.

Martin Luther (1483-1546) was an Augustinian monk and university lecturer in Wittenberg when he composed his “95 Theses,” which protested the pope’s sale of reprieves from penance, or indulgences. Although he had hoped to spur renewal from within the church, in 1521 he was summoned before the Diet of Worms and excommunicated. Sheltered by Friedrich, elector of Saxony, Luther translated the Bible into German and continued his output of vernacular pamphlets.

THE REFORMATION: SWITZERLAND AND CALVINISM

The Swiss Reformation began in 1519 with the sermons of Ulrich Zwingli, whose teachings largely paralleled Luther’s. In 1541 John Calvin, a French Protestant who had spent the previous decade in exile writing his “Institutes of the Christian Religion,” was invited to settle in Geneva.

Calvin’s Geneva became a center for Protestant exiles, and his doctrines quickly spread to Scotland, France, Transylvania and the Low Countries, where Dutch Calvinism became a religious and economic force for the next 400 years.

THE REFORMATION: ENGLAND AND THE “MIDDLE WAY”

In England, the Reformation began with Henry VIII’s quest for a male heir. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could remarry, the English king declared in 1534 that he alone should be the final authority in matters relating to the English church. Henry dissolved England’s monasteries to confiscate their wealth and worked to place the Bible in the hands of the people. Beginning in 1536, every parish was required to have a copy.

THE REFORMATION’S LEGACY

Along with the religious consequences of the Reformation came deep and lasting political changes. Northern Europe’s new religious and political freedoms came at a great cost, with decades of rebellions, wars and bloody persecutions. The Thirty Years’ War alone may have cost Germany 40 percent of its population.

But the Reformation’s positive repercussions can be seen in the intellectual and cultural flourishing it inspired on all sides of the schism—in the strengthened universities of Europe, church music of J.S. Bach, the baroque altarpieces of Pieter Paul Rubens and even the capitalism of Dutch Calvinist merchants.

THE MAIN TENANTS OF THE REFORMATION – THE FIVE “SOLAS”

The “SOLAS” of the Protestant Reformation are a set of doctrines held by theologians and churchmen to be central to that period of change in the western Christian church. Each sola— from the Latin meaning “alone” or “only”—represents a key belief held by the reformers of the 16th century in contrast to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. The precise number of SOLAS varies, but lists of three and five are common.

The SOLAS were not systematically brought together until the 20th century. But sola gratia and sola fide were used by the reformers themselves. For example, in 1554 Philip Melanchthon wrote, “sola gratia justificamus et sola fide justificamur” (“only by grace do you justify, and only by faith are we justified”). All the SOLAS show up in various writings by the Protestant reformers, but they do not all appear in one place. In the earliest references to the SOLAS, three were typically mentioned: Scripture over tradition, faith over works, and grace over merit. Each of these pairs of terms is intended to highlight how Protestant teaching differs from Roman Catholic teaching.

SOLA SCRIPTURA (“by Scripture alone”)

The phrase, sola scriptura, or “by scripture alone,” asserts that the Bible must determine church traditions and interpretations. All church practices and doctrines must be in unity with the teachings of Scripture, the divinely inspired Word of God. This principle asserts that the Bible is to be interpreted through itself, with one passage of Scripture being useful in the interpretation of other passages. It shows that the Bible is a unified system of truth as well as the revelation of truth. The teachings and customs of the church must align themselves with the Word of God; only then can they be applied with any assurance of God’s approval and of their own trustworthiness.

SOLA FIDE (“by faith alone”)

The two Latin words, sola fide, translated “by faith alone,” declare that good works are not the means by which salvation is attained; neither are they required nor accepted by God for granting salvation. Sola fide is the teaching that justification (understood in Protestant theology as “being declared just by God”) is received by faith alone, without the need for good works on the part of the believing individual. Good works may be viewed as the evidence of saving faith; they do not determine salvation.

Martin Luther used the expression “simuljustusetpeccator” (“at the same time justified and a sinner”).  Justification is entirely the gracious work of God. It is only as a justified person that one is enabled to do anything that is acceptable (good or righteous) in the sight of God.

SOLA GRATIA (“by grace alone”)

The idea that a person’s merit is excluded from having any part in salvation is expressed in the words, “by grace alone” (sola gratia). Salvation comes by divine grace, God’s “unmerited favor,” and not as something offered, exchanged, or sacrificed by the sinner. Salvation is a gift, an unearned blessing from God for Christ’s sake.

SOLUS CHRISTUS or SOLO CHRISTO (“Christ alone” or “through Christ alone”)

The expression, solus Christus, means “only Christ,” and indicates that Christ is the exclusive mediator between God and man. In other words, there is salvation through no other person, because no other person’s intervention or intercession, whether pastor, rector, bishop, or Pope. The phrase is sometimes rendered, solo Christo, since salvation is “by Christ alone.” This SOLA of the Reformation rejects “sacerdotalism,” a term meaning that there are no valid sacraments in the church without the services of a properly ordained clergy.

Most Protestant denominations understand the Bible to teach that there are only two continuing ordinances in the Christian church, baptism and the Lord’s Supper.  Solus Christus does not deny the office of ministry in the church, to which is committed the public proclamation of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments. On the contrary, it affirms that Christ is the only priest (the High Priest) of his church, and that no saving grace at all is communicated to human beings except through him. His ministers (his pastors and teachers along with any true Christian) are commissioned by him to bring the light and life of salvation to the attention of saints and sinners, but they are not the “administrators” of salvation in any other sense than being messengers and “managers” of Biblical truth.

SOLI DEO GLORIA (“glory to God alone”)

Soli Deo gloria teaches that all glory is due to God alone, since salvation is accomplished solely through his will and his action. The reformers believed that human beings are not worthy of that glory.

The Protestant reformers were convinced that certain teachings of the Bible were necessary for a true understanding of the way of salvation. The Christian faith stood in jeopardy of being overthrown unless these doctrines were taught with precision, power, and persuasion. They continue to be upheld in true Bible believing and teaching churches today and in many evangelical churches as well. SOLA SCRIPTURA, the Bible alone is our final authority in every area of life because it is the Word of God. SOLUS CHRISTUS, Christ alone, in his perfect life and atoning death in the sinner’s place, is the basis for our acceptance by God. SOLA GRATIA, the grace of God alone in Christ and not works of human merit or effort is why God saves sinners. SOLA FIDE, faith alone is the means by which sinners receive or appropriate this grace of God. SOLI DEO GLORIA, to God alone belongs the glory for saving sinners and for everything else in this life and the life to come.

IS THE REFORMATION OVER?

But is the Reformation on its last gasp? Not where the Gospel is prized and preached.  Not where a denial of justification by faith alone is known to be a denial of the Gospel itself — and to be a heresy that has lasted far more than 500 years.  Today and until Jesus Christ comes again, true believers in Christ must defend and proclaim until death the message of the Gospel of grace built on Scripture alone that teaches eternal salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, for the glory of God alone!

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