Is the Protestant Reformation Over?

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In 1999, the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation, in an effort to resolve 500 years of conflict since the

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Protestant Reformation, signed a joint declaration on the doctrine of justification. I'm really not trying to spit rhymes here.

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The statement claimed that the two bodies are now able to articulate a common understanding of our justification by God's grace through faith in Christ.

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A Methodist council later adopted the declaration in 06, and a communion of Reformed churches adopted it in 2017.

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Many have pointed to this and other ecumenical partnerships and said, see, the Protestant Reformation is over.

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But is it really? Do those churches now submit to the primacy of the Pope? Well, Rick Warren, our new

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Pope, no, we're still supposed to be protesting. The Catholic Church has not changed its position on justification.

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They've said that if a person believes in justification by faith alone, they are cursed to hell. If a person rejects the

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Pope's teaching, they're cursed. If they've not been baptized or attend a Catholic church, they're cursed. The Catholic Church says a person is saved by faith and works.

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But the Bible says that a person is saved by grace through faith and not of works. Roman Catholicism is a different gospel.

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The Bible says if anyone teaches a different gospel, they are cursed. We are not fellow workers on the mission field.

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They are the mission field. Now being Protestant doesn't just mean we protest the Pope. We protest any teaching contrary to the wisdom of God in the

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Bible. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

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We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God when we understand the text.