When
I was in seminary, I sometimes wondered if Luther, Calvin and Wesley
were all such geniuses or if, instead, they were simply capable,
talented people whose lives came along
at pregnant moments of history when Reformation was bound to happen
anyway. Now that I am living through a real-life Reformation, I am
leaning more toward the latter idea. None of us chose to paddle the
rapids of this fast-changing post-Christendom era,
but like it or not, God has placed us here: in the middle of white
water with a Bible and a paddle and an assortment of characters on the
journey with us, ranging from the bold and brilliant to the timid and
the panicky.
