The CREC Scholastic? Part V: Reforming Evangelicalism
Moving from "how a nerd like me could be CREC" to "why a nerd like me likes the CREC"
[Continuing my Apologia de CREC. Previous parts: I, II, III, IV]
I have up to this point in this series of posts spent a lot of time explaining how I find room for myself in the CREC despite some doctrinal distinctives and emphases which differ markedly from most churches connected to the high tradition of Reformed Orthodoxy and Scholasticism that I so love. In this sense, the account so far has been primarily defensive.
With my initial fortifications now erect, lest I give the impression of the CREC being a place I’ve settled into with reluctance and embarrassment, I want to sketch a beginning of a positive account of why I’m actually glad to be in the CREC and what I think it does notably well, besides the practical link of my favor for paedocommunion. For the convenience of others, especially my Southern Baptist brethren, I will group these in three points: worship, doctrine, and culture.
Reforming Worship
I think the average CREC church service has nearly everything I would consider asking for in a broadly evangelical context.