Our good friend, Gene Edward Veith over at his blog Cranach, asks the question, “If the Church were to go through another Reformation today, what do you think needs reforming? What are the issues today?”
Take a look at some of the answers. Then, contribute your own, here (comments are now open) or over at Cranach.
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I think what needs reform is the churches at large tendency to confuse Law and Gospel. As a contrast, C.F.W. Walther lectured for 39 evenings on this distinction alone. What do we regularly lecture on these days? End times? Prophecy? Miracles?
Law and Gospel.
Pastors followed by laity learning how to rightly distinguish between law and gospel in the proclamation of God’s Word. Legalism would shrivel, antinomianism would die, the saints would find real comfort in the gospel, and our witness to the world would not be self-righteous. We would readily confess our need for grace and mercy to the world and that our only comfort in life and death is Christ!