Disclaimer and Purpose

This site is not an official arm of any Brethren fellowship. The content, opinions, and doctrinal perspectives are solely those of the author.

The blog name "BReformed" is twofold in its implication: 1) It is shorthand for "Brethren Reformation"; 2) it is a call to "Be reformed" in the sense of correcting, or reforming, the drift that has occurred among various Brethren groups. The content of this blog is, admittedly, presupposed to the Doctrines of Grace in particular, and Calvinism generally, as were the early Brethren. But the moniker "BReformed" is not meant to imply that Reformed Theology is espoused here.

The purpose of this blog is to call Brethren back to the core doctrinal distinctives proclaimed during the post-reformational growth of the 17th & 18th century Brethren church as documented by history, and confirmed to be true by scripture. Those distinctives include what is today called "Lordship Salvation", and was expressed by Alexander Mack in 1715; the authority of the church in spiritual matters; oversight of the church by ordained elders instead of congregational boards; the superior benefit of the studied lay-preacher as opposed to an employed clergy; the historically and doctrinally accurate practice of the threefold communion; the practice of trine baptism for membership in the local church as the most historical and biblical picture of the trinitarian work of salvation; a return to theological hymnology; a return to the doctrine of non-resistance; a return to the headcovering for women in congregational prayer; the rejection of infant baptism; the rejection of mysticism, icons, and extra-biblical revelation; and the rejection of creeds, and creedal-equivalents as a plumb line for holy living.