The Reformation Isn't Over

Here's an excerpt from The Reformation Isn't Over, James White's contribution to the March issue of Tabletalk:

"You do not want to end up on the wrong side of history." This platitude has been granted prognostic status in our day, though one could properly question its fundamental truthfulness. It reflects, however, the prevailing attitude of Western culture, a pragmatism that enshrines in the judgment of "history" (whatever that means in this context) the final arbiter of morality, goodness, and worth. Often this phrase is being urged upon the church to "move on" from opposing homosexuality or the redefinition of marriage.

But this adage also captures the general attitude of a large portion of the population on both sides of the Tiber River to the Reformation and the continuing battle over the issues that gave it birth. Isn't it time to just move on? Can't we lay aside our differences for a greater good? Aren't we a small enough minority now in the midst of a tsunami of secularism and the rising tide of Islam? Shouldn't we be looking for unity, not for more reasons to remain separate?

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