The Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF): 1, 21.5, 23.3, 27, 28, 29 - highlight at least two most important ordinances many orthodox pastors love to narrowly focus on today in their ordained duty: The Word and the Sacraments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Question 88<\/strong> of the Shorter Catechism and Question 154<\/strong> of the Larger Catechism also provide summary of this, along with Prayer being another ordinance. So these 3 ordinances as the most popular ones among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, I would prefer to revise the \"Word\" part to be the \"Living Word<\/strong>\". It's crucial to make this emphasis because failing this, is why orthodox preaching in America has become such an act on the pulpit, boring, textbook, lifeless, shallow, narrow, monopolar\/myopic in their monologues, impersonal, no message for the era, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF): 1, 21.5, 23.3, 27, 28, 29 - highlight at least two most important ordinances many orthodox pastors love to narrowly focus on today in their ordained duty: The Word and the Sacraments. Question 88 … Continue reading