Questions for Study and Reflection

What are the doctrinal challenges to the evangelical faith in your context?

What are the cultural challenges for evangelicals in public life or the workplace?

How well are we passing on the baton of apostolic truth to the next generation? What can we do differently to achieve this better?

Could churches work together more fruitfully at a local level in some areas? Are there any activities in which it could stir confusion to work together?

Read The Unquenchable Flame by Michael Reeves (IVP, 2009) or Why the Reformation Still Matters by Michael Reeves and Tim Chester (IVP, 2016).

OR

Listen-in to a class taught by Carl Trueman (Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia). Thirty-three sessions available by podcast at www.wts.ac.

For those wanting to read further, we commend Andrew Pettegree’s (ed) The Reformation World (Routledge, 2000). An in-depth, one-volume survey of the Reformation, well-illustrated.

Read through The Westminster Confession of Faith (1647).

Recommended guide: Confessing the Faith: A reader’s guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith by Chad Van Dixhoorn (Banner of Truth, 2016).

OR

Read through the Cape Town Confession of Faith (2010).

Recommended guide: Cape Town Commitment: Study Edition by Rose Dowsett (Hendrickson Publishers / Lausanne Library, 2012).

Read the responses from Christian leaders in other regions (lausanne.org/reformation). What lessons can we draw for ourselves from the Church in these regions?

Recommended book: Pray for the World by Jason Mandryk and Molly Wall (IVP).

How can we better echo Christ’s prayer for future generations?

Read a book outlining the history of the evangelical church in your country. Who were its pioneers? What challenges has it faced internally, and from external pressures? Are there lessons other nations can learn from the challenges your church has faced?

Read the story of a church from another part of the world which has come through a particular trial in standing for truth.

Select one or two books for the group to read and discuss, relating to specialist areas, or to the need more generally for a Christian voice. For example:

The Courage to be Protestant by David F Wells (Eerdmans 2008).

Impossible People by Os Guinness (IVP).

Fruitfulness on the Frontline by Mark Greene (IVP).