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692. The Gospel Creates the Church not Hollywood, Baby (Danny Hyde)

#reformed #reformedtheology The primacy of the "reading" and the "preaching" of the word of God in the Westminster Confession's list reflects its primacy in the New Testament. The church under the new covenant is birthed and given form through the apostolic preaching of the word. Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost highlights the person and work of Christ, and proceeds to press the claims of Christ upon his audience. Those who "repent[ed]" and "received his word" are "added" to the church (Acts 2:38, 41). The church is described as "devoted….. to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers" (Acts 2:42). The same apostolic word that had gathered sinners serves to edify and mature the saints. Guy Waters, One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church (Bellingham: Lexham Academic), 197.