Centrality of God's Word to Reformation

November 20, 2024•70 words

So vital is the Bible to any true reform that a return to the Bible—to its reverence and study, to its acceptance as the authoritative and sufficient guide for all of our faith and practice, to its use as the yardstick by which all other claims to truth and wisdom are assessed—is precisely what reformation is all about.

—Richard Phillips, 'Turning Back the Darkness: The Biblical Pattern of Reformation', 143.

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