Gospel-Driven Quote of the Week (7-5-10)
Jul 5, 2010
“There are many things in the Christian life that are useful and assist us in our walk. Disciplines of prayer and Bible reading, fellowship with believers, evangelism, and social concern are habits that the individual and the church cannot live without. Yet the Word and the sacraments are distinguished from all else as means of grace. While prayer is, as the Heidelberg Catechism puts it, ‘the chief part of gratitude,’ it is something that moves from us to God, while in the preached Word and the sacraments, the movement is from God to us.
We cannot have grace on ourselves. Only the Great King can confer a blessing on His subjects- especially if that blessing includes adoption of sinners into His own royal family. Nothing that we do- however crucial to our Christian life, can communicate or confirm the promises of God. Only God can do that, and that is why He has instituted the preaching of the gospel and the sacraments…"
Michael Horton, God of Promise, p. 162
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