Scripture, Scripture and Scripture, it is all about Scripture. The reason why I enjoy the works of the Puritans is because their goal is to align themselves close as possible to a Scripture oriented lifestyle and meditate on God's Word day in and day out. We have lost that mindset where there are a lot of distractions to this world, especially these days, with the news, different content that is being created by various content creators. One of the downfalls in my opinion of the Puritans is that they wanted a church state structure. If they kept church and state separated, in which they eventually had to, they could have been more pure and the church in effect would run its own affairs while the state would run its own affairs. Sure there might have been some overlap where the church influenced the state because the state would have a large population of its citizens that were Puritans. But most of the puritan mindset has gone away and there is a more of and emphasis of the experience of Christianity. Which had its roots in Johnathan Edwards, even though, he would have never gone as far as what we see today or even a few generations after Johnathan Edwards influence on American Christianity. We need to recognize the Christian experience and making a firm decision to follow Jesus. But it shouldn't just to make a decision decades ago and forgetting about it, but being involved with Church life, and reading and memorizing Scripture daily, and going through a Biblically sound Catechism. I have four different Catechisms on my phone and two of them I incorporate them into my daily devotions. The first 100 years of the United States was marked by having a high view of Scripture and going through the Catechism and memorizing Scripture along with the Catechism. The Catechisms are a wonderful tool to use, to keep us sinners on track on what is important. Sure, it has been abused just like any other tool. That is why many had pushed back against the Catechism mindset and have a more experience oriented conversion. Not a long process conversion to the Christian faith. Both are ditches as we see today, where people converted to Christianity multiple times in their life and not knowing if they are actually saved or not. And if we take both the "conversion" mindset and balance with a more long process mindset of going through Scripture and reading, studying it, memorizing it and use Catechisms as a way to foster a life for Jesus is a worthwhile pursuit.
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