Again, I’m still not leaving the Reformation to become Roman Catholic - which you always seem to have to clarify up front. But when it comes to the universal Christian Church impacting the world, nobody in the world notices when the PCA, or any other conservative Reformed denomination, elects a new moderator. But everybody notices when Rome chooses a new Pope. And it isn’t per se due to compromise, or because the Pope is the Antichrist. It’s two thousand years of consistent existence, within physical space, and whatever good has come out of it in spite of all the bad, both doctrinally and morally.
The fact that the CREC has grown and is making the impact it is is due to years of consistent, faithful plodding, and a refusal to confine salvation to the church building, the interior working of God in men’s hearts, and the family.
Pietism will always want to linger because of what it gets right. It will never fully flourish because of what it gets wrong.
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