http://kimriddlebarger.squarespace.com/how-many-points/

You'll find this essay by Muller on "How Many Points" the best short summary of what is truly Reformed. The system builds and stands upon every single point including the use of the sacraments. It was a Lutheran, Herman Sasse I believe, who once said that if you don't understand the sacraments you will misunderstand other Scripture. And he is right. If you study the different systems out there even just neutrally you will find they all build on themselves around the sacraments be it Reformed, Lutheran, Roman Catholic or Baptistic. Each system's theology is a shadow of their understanding of the sacraments from start to finish even if you take a pure neutral analytical look at them without saying X is right and Y is wrong. That's at least an honest "look at it". But you'll find this essay the most helpful as a summary as to why what is Reformed in the sense of the term versus not.

I hope this helps,

Larry

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Larry Hughes
Geologist
Tates Creek PCA
Lexington, KY
PCA

Galatians 4:29, "But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also."