“At the very heart of this generous Protestantism was the power of Scripture, through its teaching of justification by faith, to impart saving trust and transforming love to the wayward hearts and wandering souls of sinners. For according to Reformation Anglicanism, the glory of God is to love the unworthy.”
—Dr. Ashley Null
To raise up, train & support Reformation Anglican leaders to serve the church & the world with the gospel of grace & gratitude.
Anglican identity today is based on the supreme authority of Holy Scripture as it’s found enshrined in its historic formularies.
Arminianism in its various forms is like kudzu that has taken over the church a mile-a-minute.
Puritans were united only by their common desire for greater reform than was exhibited in the Elizabethan Settlement.
They say, that Christ is received in the mouth, and entereth in with the bread and wine: we say, that he is received in the heart, and entereth in by faith.
John Day died July 23, 1583 after a long and constant career of promoting the Bible as God’s uniquely inspired Word.
Our confessions/forumlaries, and subscription to them, has kept a fragile peace, but peace nonetheless, until modern times.
The Bible is plain to read and plain to understand by ordinary people in all essential matters pertaining to salvation (Articles of Religion, Article 6).
Lazarus did not come out of the grave because he got his free will in motion to choose resurrection; it was because he received an external command from God’s word, which does what it says. - Steven Paulson
The focus of historic Anglicanism is not a change in the bread and wine, but a miracle so much greater: the transformation of the faithful recipients
Elizabeth Barton, known as the “Mad Nun of Kent,” was executed on April 20, 1534 - the same year that the Church of England broke its connection with the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
Jesus hung on the cross for three hours Good Friday before he breathed his last. In that time there were seven “sayings” of Jesus, Seven Last Words, recorded in the different gospels
By changing "table" to "altar" in the 1979 Prayer Book and by adding the fraction anthem ("Christ our passover is sacrificed for us,” not "has been sacrificed") only shows the creeping influence of the 19th century Oxford Movement.
The Elizabethan Settlement is thoroughly biblical, confessionally reformed, pastorally generous, and liturgically beautiful.
Whole systems of religion are devised to facilitate our understanding of salvation-by-increments.
In this via media (Calvin and Cranmer), Christ’s body is objectively offered, but not objectively or automatically present apart from faith.
The Medieval Church had grown to be too rich, too powerful, and too corrupt: a far cry from what the fishermen of Galilee had intended.