What is Reformed? (Steven Lawson)

When we say "Reformed", we simply mean "biblical", that we've come back to the Bible, and allow the Bible to frame our doctrines.

The foundation is the authority of the Scripture Alone, and the highest pinnacle is the glory of God above all things. The reformed truth is the purity of the gospel: "how sinful man and be right with the Holy God."

"Reformed" in essence is: God formed the truth. And then the truth became deformed by false teachers, traditions and ecclesiastical hierarchy, which became the authority (instead of the Word of God). "Reformed" is to simply bring it back to where God formed it. So, man by his failure to properly teaching the Bible deformed it, and the reformers simply put it back to the form as God has originally given it.