Protestantism has a future only if we Protestants recover the original catholic vision of the Reformers. We need to take up the project of uniting and renewing the whole church.
Some Protestants recoil at talk about reuniting Catholics and Protestants in one church (not to mention the Eastern Orthodox Church and others). They see such a project as an abandonment of the Gospel.
And yet it's exactly the opposite. The imperative to unity is an evangelical imperative, a demand of the Gospel.
Here's why. The Gospel begins with God's promise that Abraham's seed would unite the nations that had been scattered at Babel. All nations would share in God's blessing (Genesis 12:1-4). Israel's prophets envisioned a day when nations would stream ..."
JESUS HEALS!
