Crux Sola: Formed by Scripture to Live like Christ
Having gone to a conservative conference recently for the first time, I was thinking about doctrine and Scripture a lot this past week. I am “evangelical” without hesitation or qualification, but sometimes I fear the wrath of a traditionalist scorned, so to speak. I was impressed, then, when I stumbled upon this quote from Kaesemann…
If our parents rightly described the church of Christ as semper reformanda, as always in need of renewal, we must see to it that the world and members of our community are not fed with dogmatic formulas become unintelligible or useless. In any event, the confessions of the fathers are our guideposts, not live wires to keep the cows in the pasture or block the curious from entering the holy place. Since earliest Christianity, stupidity, ecclesiastical tyranny, and party strife have misused the confessions, as if they could replace the living voice of the gospel, the voice of the God who speaks to us today. In that case, the past of the religious world is made the sphere for a faith that no longer journeys into God’s unknown future and there awaits the open heavens above. (p. 162).
NB: From On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene (Eerdmans).
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