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The Reformation

Shaun Kearney

The one that took place 1600 years before Martin Luther

“If the salt has lost its savour it is fit for nothing” Matthew 5:13.
Every branch of the present religious system is in damage control. It seems to have lost its sense of mission which was to be light and salt in the earth. It is a church that resents any who challenge its beliefs and practices, but this resentment is never more evident than when those who were once among its ranks and have moved out, (but not away from Christ) are calling its leaders to account.

For this reason there is a cleavage between the man who regards obedience to the truth as the only reality in life, and the man who regards his particular religious tradition as more authoritative than the word of God. It is dangerous to have and to practise a standard other than the accepted standard of religious institutions.

The world suspects people who are different. The reason men killed Socrates was because he was always compelling them to think and to examine themselves, and men hated him to the point that they killed him. History shows it has always been dangerous for a Christian to have ideas that in any way challenge the status quo.

The church acutely dislikes people whose lives are a condemnation of it. It is in fact dangerous to be good. A classic instance of that is the fate which befell Jesus Christ in Jerusalem. When Pilate asked its citizens what should be done with him, they cried crucify Him.

To put it bluntly men always suspect nonconformity. The present religious system likes a pattern; it likes to be able to label a person and to classify him and to put him in a pigeonhole; anyone who does not conform to the pattern will certainly meet trouble.

The basic demand on the Christian is that he should have the courage to cry out and spare not when it comes to serious issues affecting belief and practice. To be different is dangerous, but no man can be a Christian unless he accepts that risk.

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"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good" 1Thess 5:21