{"id":6286,"date":"2022-10-17T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:01:17","slug":"reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6286","title":{"rendered":"Reformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;Reformation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear a lot about \u201creformation\u201d in our day. There are reformed churches, reformed doctrine, reformed preachers and reformed believers, everything seems to be \u201creformed.\u201d The word \u201creform\u201d means to \u201cimprove or to make better.\u201d If \u201creformation\u201d means to improve myself or make myself better, then, I do not need reformation! What I need is a perfect righteousness. I surely cannot find any hope of eternal life in trying to make myself better, especially when God requires perfection. I do not need \u201creformation\u201d; I need \u201cregeneration.\u201d I do not need to get my heart right; I need a new heart that is right. The lost sinner does not need to just change their way; they need to change their God. I do not need to make myself \u201cbetter\u201d, I need to be made \u201cperfect.\u201d I do not need reformation, I need a \u201cnew creation\u201d, which can only be found in Christ. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;~David Eddmenson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Reformation? I hear a lot about \u201creformation\u201d in our day. There are reformed churches, reformed doctrine, reformed preachers and reformed believers, everything seems to be \u201creformed.\u201d The word \u201creform\u201d means to \u201cimprove or to make better.\u201d If \u201creformation\u201d means to improve myself or make myself better, then, I do not need reformation! What I need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,129,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-david-eddmensen","category-complete-in-christ","category-false-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}