This, of course, is a large part of Tim's argument: All three of these streams are good and necessary in Christian movements, all three are natural children of the Reformed theological tradition, and so the best thing a Reformed denomination can do is figure out how to get all three to play nicely together instead of picking one or maybe two sides to run with and leaving the others out. And in all of that I think Keller was obviously correct. But also for his proposal to work, members of each bloc need to be closer to the healthier expression of that group. And lately in our communion it has felt rather more like we are regularly seeing each at our worst.
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