Most important of all, the Reformed faith is centered in the living Lord Jesus Christ.
It is centered solidly in the faith that the Word became flesh and lived among us and in the equally sure conviction that this was no freak event of thirty-three years' duration, but an eternal fact in God that we can always count on.
It is in Christ that we must be centered--
- not in what he said, magnificent as his utterances were;
- not in what he did, though his atoning death is the very ground of our hope;
- not in any theory about who or what he was, essential as they are...
...but in Christ: in his living person, in his ever-present activity, in his never-failing power--Christ crucified, then risen, and living forever.
If you read the Heidelberg Catechism, you will find that--whether it is speaking to faith, baptism, the Lord's Supper, or prayer--in every part Jesus Christ is the living center, the source from which all meaning radiates.
Every part of the Reformed faith is made to point to the One who is alive and available for our every need, the One who touches and influences our lives.
Every need of ours finds its final answer in Jesus.
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