Always Reforming

How's that for some clickbait! If you clicked on the link expecting a slide into Liberalism, I assure you, that is not the case.  My goal today is to demonstrate that following the Bible wherever it takes us , even into the murky waters of unorthodoxy, is not, in fact, the Reformed view.  In other words, the emphasis of the title falls on  wherever it takes us and not on  the Bible .  Having been raised in a Reformed community where Andrew Sandlin, Gary DeMar, and Ken Gentry were household names, it pains me to see controversy in their ranks, but controversy is often the cost of truth.   Gary DeMar , who has authored several books on the topic of Eschatology, has recently come under some heat for his refusal to affirm particular statements regarding the Second Coming and Final Judgment.  I will leave it to older and wiser men to discuss the veracity of the allegations leveled against DeMar (I personally don't see how his views are compatible with creedal orthodoxy, but DeMar

Naked, I lie prostrate before you, sins Exposed; I offer no mitigations, Humbly I submit my prayer, no excuse Enclosed; affectations would serve no use, Surely, self-righteous boasters, their merit Supposed, now have all they will inherit, Stricken men have naught to do but kneel, Self Deposed, to regain their abandoned health, Behold, the miracle of love!  Accounts Transposed; corpses resurrect at the fount, Rags, filthy, stripped from my back; with crimson Enrobed; above my brow a crown glistens, A rebel, a friend of serpents, sins now Disclosed, has been made a son, and how! The Great Exchange, places traded, my guilt Disposed; my Lord, do with me as Thou wilt.

Dust--thinking, speaking, acting Dust; mortal, fallen, failing Dust; lost, lonely, repulsive Dust; weak, depraved, explosive Dust; listless, broken, heaving Dust; dying, decayed, reeking Dust; spent, aimless, wavering  Dust; rent, carnal, wandering Dust; image-bearing, holy  Dust; called and redeemed, sacred Dust; 'Manuel, God became Dust to save and glorify Dust; resurrected, renewed  Dust; purchased, and yet, still dust.