Could you, Protestant, go ‘home’ to Rome? (4)
Gritters examines whether Reformed Protestants might find themselves drawn to Rome, not as a matter of desire but as a potential judgment from God upon unfaithful churches. The article warns that spiritual decline and compromise in doctrine can lead God to permit entire congregations or denominations to drift toward Roman Catholicism, using Israel's Babylonian captivity as a biblical parallel. Rather than focusing on evangelical converts to Rome, Gritters calls Reformed believers to vigilance and faithfulness, lest they too fall under God's disciplinary hand.
Previous article in this series: April 15, 2019, p. 321. The recent editorials about Protestants making Rome their 'home' have had one primary purpose, and it has not been to show that matters are so serious in much of Protestantism that they are fixing their spiritual GPS on the Romish church. Matters are that serious, as the articles have attempted to demonstrate, but that has not been their chief end. Rather, their primary purpose is to have you ask whether you, who read these editorials...
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