Over the last three years the Gospel Reformation Network (GRN) has sought to engage the ministers, churches, and agencies of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in a conversation on the doctrine of sanctification–– a doctrine which is foundational to our understanding of the gospel and the Christian life.

The Gospel Reformation Network (GRN) is hosting its annual luncheon at the PCA General Assembly in Chattanooga on June 10, 2015 at the Chattanooga Convention Center Ballroom H/I. To register for this luncheon go here.

Over the last three years the Gospel Reformation Network (GRN) has sought to engage the ministers, churches, and agencies of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in a conversation on the doctrine of sanctification–– a doctrine which is foundational to our understanding of the gospel and the Christian life. The GRN is thankful for the many people around the PCA who have joined the conversation and are, like us, eager to see our churches proclaiming a robust, biblical, and confessional view of sanctification.

The GRN boldly proclaims the good news that through Christ we are not only saved from something, but to something; that is, saved from sin, death, and hell, and saved to a life of progressive sanctification.

The GRN is overseen by a governing Council of comprised of Jon D. Payne, Ligon Duncan, Jason Helopoulus, Rick Phillips, Harry, Reeder, David Strain, and Mel Duncan. Read more about these council members here.

The GRN is a collaboration of Presbyterian Church in America ministers who are concerned about the balance and accuracy of gospel preaching in our denomination. Specifically, they are working to bolster the biblical and confessional doctrine of sanctification. Their concern is that in the fervor of today’s well-placed emphasis on the gospel that the whole gospel should be proclaimed. They are concerned to see the gospel often represented as involving justification alone, without its companion grace of sanctification. In an effort to avoid legalism, many today are downplaying the biblically vital calling to personal holiness, and even the ability in Christ of regenerate people to obey God’s Word. The GRN’s desire, then, is to point out the biblical mandate for sanctification, to warn against “gospel” preaching that denies or downplays holiness and biblical obedience, to accurately identify the implications of the new birth for obedience in Christ, and to restore the proper use of the law and biblical imperatives to our ministries.

For more information about GRN, contact Mel Duncan.

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