We need not debate about the mere words evolution or progress: personally I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form. It implies that we are trying to shape the world in a particular image; to make it something that we see already in our minds. Evolution is a metaphor from mere automatic unrolling. Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road—very likely the wrong road. But reform is a metaphor for reasonable and determined men: it means that we see a certain thing out of shape and we mean to put it into shape. And we know what shape.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Reformage originally began as small gesture, aiding a movement to help churches develop theologically robust ministries to resource and equip the next generation.
As my own ministry involvement and context has shifted, inevitably the opportunities to serve the wider church have also changed. While my desire to support churches engage the next generation remains strong, my means of doing so are different.
And so begins a reset of this ‘Reformage’ project.
As suggested in the Chesterton quote above, ‘reform’ carries a particular nuance that well captures my intent. Christian reform is seeking to assist Christians, ministries, churches, and cities to become more and more the kinds of people that God created and designed us to be.
I’m an Anglican minister in Sydney, a Protestant, Reformed, Evangelical (in the theological sense of that last word).
I hope in some small way, this project can be of assistance.
Luke Thomson