This presentation analyzes the crisis of justification in today’s church, tracing its biblical foundations, reformational clarity, and modern challenges. The discussion explores how the doctrine of justification by faith alone, which was once central to Reformation theology, has been eclipsed by cultural priorities like individualism, moral achievement, and therapeutic self-construction. Drawing from both Old and New Testament passages, insights from Luther and Calvin, and observations on contemporary church practices, Areem Zia (Pakistan) argues that recovering justification by faith offers crucial pastoral medicine for a spiritually exhausted generation. This presentation is from Theo Global in South Asia.
Imputed Righteousness and Self-Made Identity: The Crisis of Justification in Our Church Culture
This presentation analyzes the crisis of justification in today’s church, tracing its biblical foundations, reformational clarity, and modern challenges.
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The Architecture of Guilt: A Forensic Framework for Atonement in a Secular Age
We currently inhabit a unique historical moment that the sociologist Philip Rieff presciently termed the “triumph of the therapeutic.” The great secular project of the twentieth century made a specific promise: if we dismantled the external structures of religious law, we would finally be free from the crushing weight […]
A Congregation of the Passover
One cannot exaggerate just how critical the sequence of events recorded in Chapters 11, 12, and 13 of Exodus is in the history of Israel, the church, and the world. What God does, says, and reveals to his servant Moses and his covenant people still resonate with God’s people today as the Lord […]
The Great Exchange: The Good News of Christ’s Passive and Active Obedience
In this edition of *Modern Reformation*, we’re talking about something exciting, something amazing—something at the very heart of the gospel itself. *Obedience*. Now, you might hear obedience and think, well, that’s not very exciting. It’s good. But is it good news?
