Five hundred years ago a monk nailed a protest to a church door because salvation was being sold to build a basilica. The answer was five words: Scripture alone, grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone, glory to God alone. They were not slogans. They were a matter of life and death. Rome needed a coin in the coffer. We are worse. We have decided people are basically good and grace is optional. Doug Van Dorn opens his book The Five Solas of the Reformation and walks through the chapters: the word as your very life, grace as absolutely free gift, faith as the instrument rather than merit, Christ as the only mediator and the real Jacob’s ladder, and the glory of God as the end of all of it. Reformation month on Reformed Fringe. The word of God is still no empty word.
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