Essentials of Reformed Doctrine: Lesson 24 (“The Church")
Essentials of Reformed Doctrine is a systematic doctrine class aimed at older teenagers, but adapted in Ireland for adults who want to learn all the doctrines of Christianity.
Lesson 24 is "The Church."
The main subjects covered in this Lesson are:
Part 1:The church as spiritual organism; the election and gathering of the church; the church militant, triumphant, visible, invisible, organism and institute.
Part 2: The attributes of the church: unity, holiness, catholicity, apostolicity.
Part 3: The power of the church; the keys of the kingdom; church government.
Part 4: Church government (continued): the offices in the church.
The LRF runs an adult reformed doctrine class in which we work through the Essentials of Reformed Doctrine catechism booklet published by the PRCA.
Below you will find the lesson outlines based on Lesson 24.
Each lesson outline comes as a handy PDF formatted to be printed as a single double-sided page with narrow margins. Download the attachments below.
Reformed Church Government: Proof Texts or Principles?
What is a Reformed church and what principles from the Word of God determine its government?
Is "Open Time" Really Being Open to the Spirit?
Should we aim to follow the example of "open time" (where everyone shares his own insights, etc) in our worship services?
Women in Church Office: Is it Biblical?
A brief critique of the error of permiting women to preach and hold office in the church.
Women in Church Office
Many churches allow women to be ministers, elders and deacons: they do so in rebellion to Christ.
Phebe: An Example for the Christian Woman
Advocates of women's ordination point to Phoebe in Romans 16:2 as an example of a deacon. They are mistaken.
Public Worship and the Reformed Faith
How do Reformed churches worship and why?
Zeal for God's House: The Motivation for Christian Discipline
An explanation and defence of the practice of Church Discipline
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