{"id":120,"date":"2007-05-17T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-05-17T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T14:46:20","slug":"my-use-of-the-reformed-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"My Use of the Reformed Confessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Frame has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frame-poythress.org\/frame_articles\/MyUse.htm\" title=\"My Use of the Reformed Confessions\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent article<\/a> on the use of Reformed Confessions.<\/p>\n<p>The quote I enjoy the most is, &#8220;<strong>I look   forward to the time when God will equip his church to write new confessions.   The Reformed confessions of the 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> centuries   are wonderful documents that have served the church well. But we need   confessions that speak to the issues of our own time: abortion, postmodern   ideology, egalitarianism, new spiritualities, ecumenism, the gifts of the   Spirit, common grace, the precise role of the Mosaic law the status of   non-Christian religions, the obligation of Christians to the poor, the nature   of worship, biblical standards for missions and evangelism, and, indeed, the   nature of confessional subscription. We need confessions also that can state   the old Reformed and biblical doctrines in contemporary language and support   those doctrines with the biblical scholarship that has developed over the last   400 years.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hornes.org\/mark\/\" title=\"Mark Horne's Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Horne<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Frame has an excellent article on the use of Reformed Confessions. The quote I enjoy the most is, &#8220;I look forward to the time when God will equip his church to write new confessions. The Reformed confessions of the 16th and 17th centuries are wonderful documents that have served the church well. But we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Use of the Reformed Confessions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confessions","category-reforming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}