I think that we are in a battle for the soul of the church. I'm not just talking about my Presbyterian denomination, although it certainly has its problems. I'm suggesting that we are in a battle for the soul of the whole church in our time.
Wherever you turn, the church is changing and evolving toward something new, though it is not yet clear what that new form will look like. Our forms of worship are being challenged by repeated experiments to appeal to a new generation. Denominational loyalties are falling apart and many churches are trying to distance themselves from their own denomination. Many churches have even removed the denominational identity from their name and speak of themselves as a community church.
At the time of the Reformation, there was an attempt to define what …