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Pastors of Reformed churches are often asked, "What is a Reformed church?" or "What do you mean by Reformed? Few booklet-length answers are available. Stephen Smallman, author of Understanding the Faith, has provided a booklet that pastors and churches will find eminently useful. While teaching inquirers classes, Smallman writes, "I got a sense of the kind of issues that are in peoples’ minds as they struggle to understand and appreciate the core doctrines and traditions of the church." In What Is a Reformed Church? he treats historical roots and the doctrines of Scripture, divine sovereignty, the covenant, the law, the church, and the kingdom.
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Rating : - A good short overview of the Reformed tradition
Steve Smallman packs a surprisingly large amount of content into this little booklet. He gives a very short history of the Reformed tradition, then moves on to state some of the key Reformed doctrinal positions. A book of this size is not designed to prove these doctrinal positions, merely to state them and he does a good job. Smallman discusses the Reformed views of Scripture, God's Sovereignty, the church, the covenants, the law of God, and the sacraments. I was impressed that he even gave a quick and dirty explanation of the three uses of the law. This is a good booklet to give to new members in a Reformed church. This will let them know what the church believes. Of course, they will need to go to other books to find the proof of these points (may I suggest Michael Scott Horton's "Putting Amazing Back Into Grace"), but this booklet does a great job of stating the Reformed views in a quick format.
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