The Reformation was our defining moment as Protestants. Itโs who we are, itโs our history. It was the moment the gospel was recovered from the grips of the apostasy of the Roman Catholic religion and made available to the common man. It was the wellspring of good theology of which we rest our knowledge of God on. Apart from the Scriptures itself, the Reformation gave birth to the greatest understanding of Jesus Christ and his saving gospel of grace that history has ever seen.
7ย Remember the days of old;
Deuteronomy 32:7-8๏ปฟ
ย ย ย ย consider the years of many generations;
ask your father, and he will show you,
ย ย ย ย yourelders, and they will tell you.
8ย When theMost High ย gave to the nations their inheritance,
ย ย ย ย when heย divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
ย ย ย according to the number of the sons of God.
However, at the Cross Conference a few days ago, JD Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of the multi-campus Summit megachurch in North Carolina, declares that God says we need to โshut up about the Reformationโ because He is โnot a God of the past.โ
Basically what God says through Amos is if youโll let me put it in colloquial language, โwill you shut up about Gilgal and Beersheba?โ Iโm sick and tired of hearing about those places because Iโm not a God who moved in the past. Iโm a God who wants to move today in your present. I almost think, Iโm on dangerous ground hereโฆI almost think that God is saying to us โshut up about the Reformation.โ
For your viewing pleasure, here is a link to the entire sermon.