How do we continue reforming even today?

Kevin Swanson explains in this video that one of the themes or mottos of the Reformation was, Semper Reformanda or, “always reforming” in accordance with Scripture. Today, we stand on the shoulders of the Reformers. We are called to hold onto these great truths of the Word of God.

Reformation for the Christian does not stop at conversion. Rather, the Christian is continually being sanctified, growing, and maturing spiritually. Christians should not pursue change merely to be “different” – rather, everything must always be based upon Scripture.

James 1:22-25 (NKJV) – “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”

The doctrine of the sovereignty of God, the doctrine of Scripture, the authority of Scripture, the sufficiency of Scripture, these are the doctrines that really form the foundations for us as well today. We stand on the shoulders of the reformers, but we are called to Semper Reformanda. We're called to continue to wage the good warfare and hold on to these great truths of the Word of God and the defense of the Word of God that was set forward by our reforming brothers some 500 years ago, and then we need to extend a reformation into our era as well.