I'm a missionary in Japan. The name of my mission agency is WEC International. That's supposedly Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ, but I think I have a better idea about what it stands for...
2007-10-31
Reformation Day
490 years ago day, a church which was already split into two became split into three and thence into thousands. People want to celebrate this? The effort to reform the church failed, and admitted its failure by crawling away and creating a little sub-church of its own. I shall "celebrate" Reformation Day by rereading Christ Is Our Peace:
And then there was the Reformation, and the Church was divided into the three; Western church, Eastern church, Protestant church. The Reformers didn't want to bring the Church into schism; they wanted to reform the church itself. But they couldn't do that. Other than starting up their own churches, they couldn't find a way to express their faith, and so, in weeping and mourning, they left the church that had been one, and started their own churches.
But then there were so many divisions in the church that the church fell into complete division. The Reformers wanted to bring the Church back to what it was, but instead they ended up magnifying the divisions inside the church. According to a survey, there are currently 20,000 Protestant denominations alone. 20,000 denominations.
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lathos: seriously hating on RapidSwitch at the moment. They're useless.
