What was the great sixteenth-century Reformation of the church about?
Well, it was about a great many things.
• It was about popes and penance.
• It was about corruption and conscience.
• It was about monks and masses.
• It was about the truth and the lie, Christ and antichrist, righteousness and unrighteousness.
• And much more besides.
Yes, but what was the Reformation about? What was it essentially about? What was the heart and the kernel of the Reformation? What was the issue that lay at the root of all that was said and done in the great Reformation of the church? What, in short, was the Reformation about?
Ah, therein lies the gospel. For the Reformation was about justification by faith alone.
We call the doctrine of justification by faith alone the material principle of the Reformation. That is, justification was the doctrine, the essence, the heart, the kernel, the issue—the material—of the entire Reformation.
And what marvelous material is justification by faith alone! For it is the gospel of our salvation in Jesus Christ alone.
This Reformation Day, we would be delighted if you would join us to hear about and rejoice in the wonderful gospel of justification by faith alone, the material principle of the Reformation.
Host: Remnant Reformed Church
Speaker: Rev. Andrew Lanning
Format: Lecture followed by Q&A and refreshments
Venue: Pavilion Christian School, 9181 Kenowa Ave. SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49534