Always Reforming.   The church is always in need of correction, sanctification, renewal, discipleship, gospel preaching, the faithful and diligent use of the ordinary means of grace.   The marks of the church imply as much — faithful preaching of the Word, faithful administration of the Sacraments, and church discipline.   The Reformation of the Church is not an event, it is ‘laundry work.’   Ever doing and never done.  That is, until the day when the church descends from heaven – holy, radiant, finally and fully prepared to be the bride and wife of the lamb.   For now, the church must be ‘always reforming.’  But a day is coming when faith becomes sight and every promise, every ‘yes and amen’ in Christ, is fulfilled.   Then the church will at last be all she has been created to be.   All brokenness and blemish will be gone.  

Her beauty, her perfect fellowship with her Beloved, and her indescribable life, so beautifully captured in Revelation 21:9-22:5, are the hope to which we press.   Because a day is coming when the laundry work of reformation will reach its end, we press on with the work of always reforming.    As the scripture commands us, “let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”  Join us this Reformation Lord’s Day, as we examine Revelation 21:9-22:5 and consider a day when the church will no longer be ‘always reforming.’