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How important are the Doctrines of Grace for healthy local church ministry?
7 | Joe Thorn Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship (Acts 29)
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While non-Reformed congregations can be genuinely gospel centered and truly healthy, I believe a right understanding and experience of the doctrines of grace is an important component to healthy church ministry.
Christ Fellowship Baptist Church
The doctrines of grace are the loftiest peak of theology, the unchanging high ground for the church. From this towering vantage point, one can most fully behold the supreme beauty of God’s sovereign and saving grace with greatest clarity. Nothing will so intensify one’s worship, walk, and witness as these transcendent truths.
6 | Sandy Grant Senior Minister, St Michael’s Anglican Cathedral, Australia
I am a 5 pointer, but we do systematic exposition, rather than preach a system. So we seek to share the gospel of God’s grace in Christ for lost sinners, wherever the flow of the particular Scriptures in front of us leads. That said, God’s sovereignty in all things often emerges as both pastorally important and challenging.
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9.5 | Joel R. Beeke Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation
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The doctrines of grace are not quite synonymous with the gospel, which alone deserves a 10. But they are the golden prongs that hold the diamond of the gospel on the ring of our faith. www.credomag.com | 19