My Blue Car

A few years ago I bought my dream car. A stunning blue Jetta with leather seats and every option possible on it. I loved my new car (maybe to much). When I would go to park in a parking lot, I would either park in the very back where no cars ever parked, or I would at least make sure to never park next to a cart return. My car was shiny and gorgeous. Today I still drive that car, but its not the glossy beautiful car it used to be. My Jetta (unfortunately) is getting old. The leather is wearing and the paint is fading. A realization that I have come to is that my theology often does the same thing. When the reformation happened, the new theology that Luther came up with was fresh exciting. But today if we followed Luther's exact theology it would seem old unnecessary and sometimes ridiculous. The theologies of today are the same. The classic Baptist and Presbyterian theologies we all grew up with are getting old. I am not saying that the very foundations of our theologies are old, but the less important pieces of it are becoming worn. Today I still love my car a lot, but I know it is getting older and more worn. But the realization that I have to come to is that my car eventually is going to break down and not work anymore. Our theologies if we do not adjust will do the same thing. So we must remember to keep testing and probing everything in our theologies in order to throw out the old and sometimes unnecessary theologies we insist on and adjust to something else.