Pastor Mike
Inter-confessional polemics are not my thing as I have often said. You Tube pastor Mike Winger, though, still regularly posts videos detailing what is wrong with JW’s, Mormons, Catholics and other such riff-raff. I have zero problem with this personally. Pastor Mike is a preacher grounded in the reformed tradition and accepts its dogmatic formulas on justification, sanctification, the mediation of the saints and the blessed virgin and so on. He defends these vigorously and publicly as I suppose a clergyman should. One thing I notice though is that he has no new arguments. He repeats all the old ones. In his mind, and I have no personal problem with this, the theological polemics of the early modern period, the period in which Trent squared off against the reformers, are just as vital and relevant today as they were in the 16 th Century. These battles still need to be won and he is out there winning them. One reason I don’t blame him is that there are many old school Catho...