Three Streams

Restoration, Revival and Reformation

Entries Tagged ‘Church’

Restoration Theology and Terry Virgo

I have just read Restoration in the church by Terry Virgo and I have almost finished his auto biography No well worn paths: Restoring the church to Christs original intention. While Restoring the church is over twenty years old now, it was insightful to read it just before No well worn paths. The first book [...]

A brief outline of Scottish church history

Introduction
“One of the main changes brought about by the Reformation was in regard to the place of the bible…Once the Bible had become an open book, people began to ask questions.” [1]

It’s all about Jesus

This may not come as a surprise to many Christians, however, the truth that seems to be coming to my mind again and again is that it is all about Jesus.
In my own life just now I am studying ecclesiology, I’m looking at how the church is today and comparing it with scripture, the [...]

The answer to all of the churches problems?

Church in Crisis

The Western church is undergoing a huge crisis, most people know this, perhaps with the exception of those in the church-growth/mega church camp who think that their growing churches (which are mostly due to transfers) are a sign of revival, health and growth. In reality the mega-church for the most part is anything [...]


    "We should not want a revival of experience alone without true reformation. And so the term revival is not adequate for our day unless we add the qualifiers “reformational” or “word-driven.” It is not wrong to desire revival if we mean a revival that is a resurgence of correct believing along with the enlivening of our experience with God which comes out of (not apart from) that sound doctrine."
    Jim Elliff