What's Really at Stake

• What's Really at Stake - Michael Horton - Law, Gospel and Covenants

In step with the Reformation churches, John Murray wrote, "If there is one thing the Church needs today it is the republication with faith and passion of the presuppositions of the doctrine of justification and the reapplication of this, the article of a standing or falling Church" (Collected Writings, 2:203). Is justification a matter of receiving through faith alone an alien righteousness? Or is it a matter of a judicial verdict based on an actual change in the believer? "It is the basic religious question" (ibid). The purpose of this article will be to briefly illumine the relationship of the Law-Gospel motif to the covenant of works-grace scheme, with particular attention to the issues before us.

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