One often explains the name Reformed by the motto “reformed and always reforming.” That motto can be understood in more than one way. It can point to the fact that “Reformed” must always mean reformed according to Scripture. At best this motto points to the fact that our obedience cannot become a static matter that was worked out in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and never needs to be reconsidered; it means that our church doctrine and practice must always be set against the measure of Scripture. “Reformed and always reforming” can be understood in another way, as a sort of
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