By the 16th century, the Roman Catholic Church had become increasingly corrupt and many people saw a need for reform.

And I think there's an interesting parallel to today.

I think so many people in the church see a need for reformation today.

Many people of all sorts of different theological stripes will say,

oh yes, we need reformation.

But what they mean by it is let's just have people behaving better.

But having people behave better would be treating the symptom and not the source of the problem.

Hello and welcome to Renewing Your Mind, I'm Lee Webb.

The Protestant Reformation is more than a relic of Christian history.

God's people in every generation are called to reform the church and their own lives according to God's word.

But what does that look like?

Today we're pleased to feature a seminar from the 2022 Ligonier Ministries National Conference.

Host Nathan W. Bingham and Dr. Michael Reeves addressed the enduring relevance of the Reformation.

What we're going to be talking about tonight is the Reformation and the title of the seminar is a continuing Reformation.

So as we think about the Reformation, was it a once and done thing or is the church always in need of reformation?

Well we tend to think of the Reformation as a once and done thing that Martin Luther,

he pins his 1920 thesis to the door of the castle of Cheneyashan Bittenberg.

And then at some point presumably it's over.

But that's not how the Reformers ever saw it at all because they were saying that Reformation is not primarily a negative movement about merely opposing errors.

So for the Reformers they're not saying we exist to say how Rome is wrong. They would be pointing out errors, but that's a secondary thing.

Reformation is primarily a positive movement about purifying the church by the word of God.

And because of the nature of what Reformation is, that means the Reformation cannot be over.

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