{"id":7064475,"date":"2026-09-23T04:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/the-evangelical-movement-and-the-word-of-god\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:44:51","slug":"the-evangelical-movement-and-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7064475","title":{"rendered":"The Evangelical Movement and the Word of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-4528066071339581811\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the various definitions one<br \/>\nmight give to the term \u2018Evangelical\u2019, I would commend the necessary one that <i>Evangelicals<br \/>\nregularly read the Scriptures<\/i>.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>While<br \/>\nnot a sufficient definition\u2014the Devil himself is quite versed in God\u2019s Word\u2014it is<br \/>\nsurely in the bedrock of whatever Evangelical movement is inspired by and<br \/>\nemerges from the careful and regular reading of Scripture.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Evangelicals do not just believe<br \/>\nthat Scripture is the Word of God and therefore the fountain of all theological<br \/>\nand ethical teaching for the Church.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They<br \/>\nfind various ways to express this and the further claim that this Word is<br \/>\nwithout error.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yet to be an Evangelical<br \/>\nis also to read the Scriptures, to know them, and to study them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Claiming that the Bible is God\u2019s inspired<br \/>\nWord is translated further into an active reading of the Word, a love for God&#8217;s Word, and a life formed and transformed by God&#8217;s Word.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We might trace the history of<br \/>\nthose who framed their faith by the Scriptures right back to the first century,<br \/>\nbut the designation \u2018Evangelical\u2019 should be reserved for that part of history<br \/>\nbeginning with the Reformation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>While we<br \/>\nmight suppose this to be the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century, beginning with Martin<br \/>\nLuther, we really need to step back a little in time, perhaps to the year 1378.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is the year that John Wycliffe, after<br \/>\ncirculating a tract against popery and having recovered from an illness, set<br \/>\nabout translating the Bible into English.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>At the time, two persons claimed the seat of Peter: Pope Urban and Pope<br \/>\nClement.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The reason for associating<br \/>\nWycliffe with what would come to be the Evangelical movement is that this<br \/>\ndesire to make the Scriptures available to all was also met with opposition<br \/>\nfrom the established Church.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The bishops<br \/>\ntried to suppress his work.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The<br \/>\nScriptures contradicted certain accumulated teachings of the Roman Catholic<br \/>\nChurch, and Wycliffe, in 1381, next opposed the doctrine of<br \/>\ntransubstantiation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He also challenged<br \/>\nPope Urban when the latter called for Christians to kill Christians supporting his<br \/>\nrival, Pope Clement.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>We see the seed of<br \/>\nthe Reformation planted as Scriptural authority began to challenge that of the<br \/>\nPope and of ecclesiastical teaching that found no footing in God\u2019s Word.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reforming of the Roman<br \/>\nCatholic Church began with a return to Scriptural authority above all<br \/>\necclesiastical claims, some of which had no support in Scripture whatsoever and<br \/>\nothers dependent upon contorted interpretations.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The great Bohemian, pre-Reformation reformer,<br \/>\nJan Hus (c. 1369-6 July, 1415), taught that the Church was a community of faith<br \/>\nfounded upon Scripture and Christian love:<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">Thus also many<br \/>\nof the faithful in common believe implicitly all the truth of Scripture, and<br \/>\nwhen a truth unknown to them is proposed, they search to see if it is laid down<br \/>\nin holy Scripture, and if this is shown to be the case they at once acknowledge<br \/>\nthe sense which the Holy Spirit insists on. Therefore, whoever has in common<br \/>\nwith others faith formed in love, this suffices for salvation when accompanied<br \/>\nwith the grace of perseverance (<i>The Church, <\/i>ch. VIII).<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn1;\" title=\"\"\/><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hus opposed certain teachings of<br \/>\nthe Roman Catholic Church because of his devotion to Scriptural authority.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He was betrayed by the officials who gave him<br \/>\nsafe passage to the Council of Constance and burned at the stake on 6 July, 1415.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Humanists at the time of the<br \/>\nReformation argued for an openness to reading the Scriptures.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Erasmus said that he dissented <o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">from those who<br \/>\nare unwilling that the sacred Scriptures, translated into the vulgar tongue,<br \/>\nshould be read by private individuals, as if Christ had taught such subtle<br \/>\ndoctrines that they can with difficulty be understood by a very few<br \/>\ntheologians, or as if the strength of the Christian religion lay in a man&#8217;s<br \/>\nignorance of it&#8230;. And I wish they were translated into all languages of all<br \/>\npeople, that they might be read and known. I wish that the husbandman may sing<br \/>\nparts of them at his plough, that the weaver may warble them at his shuttle,<br \/>\nthat the traveller may with their narratives beguile the weariness of the way.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn2;\" title=\"\"\/><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Evangelicals find spiritual<br \/>\nancestors in the likes of William Tyndale, who translated the New Testament<br \/>\ninto English.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He objected to one<br \/>\nclaiming that the Pope\u2019s Law surpassed God\u2019s Law, saying that, \u2018if God spare my<br \/>\nlife, ere many years, I will cause the boy who driveth the plough to know more<br \/>\nof the Scriptures than you do.\u2019<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn3;\" title=\"\"\/><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Martin Luther confronted his accusers<br \/>\nat the Diet of Worms on 18 April, 1521 by affirming Scripture as the basis for<br \/>\nhis theology.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Allegedly, when he<br \/>\nrejected their insistence that he recant his teachings, he replied, <o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">Unless I am<br \/>\nconvinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not<br \/>\ntrust either in the pope or in the councils alone, since it is well known that<br \/>\nthey have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the<br \/>\nScriptures I have quoted, and my conscience is captive to the Word of God.<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn4;\" title=\"\"\/><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether he actually said this in<br \/>\nso many words or not, this was the basic tenet from which the Reformation<br \/>\nproceeded.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Luther\u2019s claim was consistent<br \/>\nwith what he had written to Pope Leo X in 1518.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>He said that<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">he did not<br \/>\npretend to advance or defend anything contrary to the holy scriptures, or to<br \/>\nthe doctrine of the fathers, received and observed by the church of Rome, or to<br \/>\nthe canons and decretals of the popes: nevertheless, he thought he had the<br \/>\nliberty either to approve or disapprove the opinions of St. Thomas,<br \/>\nBonaventure, and other school-men and canonists, which are not grounded upon<br \/>\nany text.<a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn5;\" title=\"\"\/><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Reformation would proceed upon<br \/>\nthe authority of Scripture, the reforming of ecclesiastical teaching upon that<br \/>\nauthority, and the unbinding of an individual\u2019s conscience from the blind<br \/>\nauthority churchmen held over Christians.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Anabaptist wing of the Reformation<br \/>\ntook things further.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Church teaching<br \/>\nwould not only be a reforming of the what had been taught on the basis of the<br \/>\nScriptures, it would only be what the Scriptures had themselves taught.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Thus, small groups gathered to study the<br \/>\nScripture and pray in Zurich from<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>January, 1525, onwards.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>At his<br \/>\ntrial in 1527 in Rotterdam, the early Anabaptist minister, Michael Sattler stated,<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">Ye ministers of<br \/>\nGod, I am not sent to judge the Word of God; we are sent to bear witness of it,<br \/>\nand, hence, cannot. consent to any law, since we. have no command from God<br \/>\nconcerning it; but if we cannot be discharged from the law, we are ready to<br \/>\nsuffer for the Word of God whatever sufferings are, or may be imposed upon us<br \/>\nall for the sake of the faith in Christ Jesus our Saviour, as long as we have<br \/>\nbreath within us; unless we be dissuaded from it by the Scriptures.<a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn6;\" title=\"\"\/><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therein lies the calling of the<br \/>\nEvangelical: to be a <i>witness <\/i>to what Scripture and Scripture alone<br \/>\nteaches.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1529, John Calvin, the<br \/>\ninitiator of the Reformed tradition of the Reformation, changed his pursuit of<br \/>\nan ecclesiastical calling for that of the law because he, \u2018by reading the<br \/>\nscriptures, had conceived a dislike to the superstitions of popery\u2019.<a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn7;\" title=\"\"\/><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Calvin, of course, returned to ecclesiastical<br \/>\nservice as one of the magisterial reformers.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>He sought to establish Christian teaching on Scripture.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turning next to the Anglican<br \/>\nCommunion, Thomas Cranmer, who gave the Church of England its first <i>Book of<br \/>\nCommon Prayer<\/i>, continued the Reformation on English soil.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He would become archbishop in the time of<br \/>\nKing Henry VIII.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>When he was a fellow at<br \/>\nJesus College, Cambridge University, he was responsible for the examination of<br \/>\ncandidates for their bachelors and doctoral degrees.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>John Foxe says, \u2018It was his principle to<br \/>\njudge of their qualifications by the knowledge they possessed of the<br \/>\nScriptures, rather than of the ancient fathers, and hence many popish priests<br \/>\nwere rejected, and others rendered much improved.\u2019<a href=\"#_ftn8\" name=\"_ftnref8\" style=\"mso-footnote-id: ftn8;\" title=\"\"\/><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>For his opposition to Rome, he would<br \/>\neventually be burned at the stake.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In time, the Anglican Church<br \/>\nneeded reformation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>John Wesley\u2019s<br \/>\nattempt to bring about renewal unfortunately led instead to a break with the<br \/>\nChurch of England, and the breakaway Methodist Church was the result.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In a tract called and describing \u2018The<br \/>\nCharacter of a Methodist\u2019, Wesley wrote first of the authority of Scripture:<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">all Scripture is<br \/>\ngiven by the inspiration of God\u2019\u2026. We believe the written word of God to be the<br \/>\nonly and sufficient rule both of Christian faith and practice; and herein we<br \/>\nare fundamentally distinguished from those of the Romish Church [1].<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wesley writes especially of the<br \/>\nimportance of love, but this includes a love for God that entails keeping God\u2019s<br \/>\ncommandments found in Scripture (12).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Evangelical<br \/>\nfervour stems from this love for God and desire to obey His Word:<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">All the<br \/>\ncommandments of God he [a Methodist] accordingly keeps, and that with all his<br \/>\nmight. For his obedience is in proportion to his love, the source from whence<br \/>\nit flows. And therefore, loving God with all his heart, he serves him with all<br \/>\nhis strength. He continually presents his soul and body a living sacrifice,<br \/>\nholy, acceptable to God; entirely and without reserve devoting himself, all he<br \/>\nhas, and all he is, to his glory [13].<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">What characterized the<br \/>\nReformation and all subsequent reforms is a return to Scripture in all matters<br \/>\nof theology and ethics.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This reform characterizes<br \/>\nthe Evangelical movement through subsequent centuries, not only in terms of<br \/>\ndoctrinal authority but also in terms of devotion to God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If Scripture truly is God\u2019s Word, how could<br \/>\nthe Christian not want to read it, memorise it, sing it, preach it, live by it,<br \/>\nand love it with the same love as that expressed for the rules of the Lord in<br \/>\nPsalm 19: \u2018more to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter<br \/>\nalso than honey and drippings of the honeycomb\u2019 (v. 10).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Protestant mainline denominations<br \/>\nin our day, sadly, have drifted from this love of the Word of God and developed<br \/>\nteachings contrary to it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They have<br \/>\nfollowed other loves, and often those directly contrary to the Scriptures.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Over the centuries, the Evangelical movement<br \/>\nexisted within them as a reforming movement, but in our day, Evangelicals have<br \/>\nceased to exist as a movement within the Protestant denominations because they<br \/>\nhave lost the battle to bring Scripture-based reformation in those places.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This has left Evangelicalism as a movement<br \/>\nsomewhat disoriented.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Is it nothing more<br \/>\nthan an orthodox expression of the Church, where that means an adherence to the<br \/>\nhistoric teaching of the Church that is Scripture-based, but no longer a reforming<br \/>\nmovement?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not necessarily so.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Wherever one finds a hunger for the Word of<br \/>\nGod, a study group devoted to learning the Scriptures, a pulpit ministry<br \/>\nexpositing the Scriptures, a theological college founded unapologetically and wholly<br \/>\nfor the study of God\u2019s Word above all else, or simply an individual so desiring<br \/>\nto know God that he or she daily reads and studies the Scriptures and seeks out<br \/>\nothers who do the same\u2014there one will find the fire of Evangelicalism yet<br \/>\naflame.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>There one will hear testimonies<br \/>\nof those who have repented, of those who have found a new love for God, of<br \/>\nthose devoted to His Word, His Church, and its mission.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Indeed, the fire of every renewal, whether in<br \/>\none\u2019s own heart, in a family, in a church, in a denomination, in a seminary, in<br \/>\na mission organization, or in any Christian organisation begins with the flame<br \/>\nof desiring God and the kindling of a devotion to His Word.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;\">Lord, may<br \/>\npulpits be filled with expositors of the Bible.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>May Christians, so filled with a love for You, frequently gather<br \/>\ntogether to hear Your Holy Word.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>May the<br \/>\ndarkness of this world be filled with the Light of Scripture.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>May this generation of Christians, so averse<br \/>\nto reading and so desirous of entertainment, find joy and peace in daily reading<br \/>\nand meditating on Your Word.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Renew us,<br \/>\nOh Lord!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Kindle in us a love for You and<br \/>\na desire for Your Word.<o:p\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Of the various definitions one might give to the term \u2018Evangelical\u2019, I would commend the necessary one that Evangelicals regularly read the Scriptures.\u00a0 While not a sufficient definition\u2014the Devil himself is quite versed in God\u2019s Word\u2014it is surely in the bedrock of whatever Evangelical movement is inspired by and emerges from the careful and 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