Dusman

The Reformed Movement of today desperately needs a renaissance of liberty and freedom. I believe that God’s bringing it in perfect time, and we are here for such a time as this. I’m just not sure how to persevere to the end.

God is “bringing it”, and He’s starting with one Christian at a time but IMHO, I don’t think it will occur primarily in the subscriptionist churches, at least not yet. Just like all doctrinal pendulum swings, they’ll have some groups that break off from them in the future once the authoritarianism and patriocentricity becomes too cult-like seeking “a more excellent way.”

The areas you are more than likely to see this in will be in splinter groups from the strongly complementarian Sovereign Grace Ministries movement (of which Wayne Grudem is a part) that desire the high view of Scripture, the high view of God’s Sovereignty, yet desire to have people operate in accordance with their gifts vs. their gender per the Scriptures. Moreover, this is already being seen in the New Covenant Theology movement, of which, I’m part of (see Jon Zen’s excellent article here: http://www.searchingtogether.org/free-to-function.htm).

Both of these movements are confessional in a sense, yet they have folks within them that strongly desire to test all things in light of the word. Those from the more authoritarian backgrounds (i.e., those that hold to Dabneyism) will call the rest heretics. And so the story goes . . . .