“As reformation gets underway, we will find that our churches continue to be diverse in many ways. Some will have roots in the Jesus-people movement of the seventies. Others will have a dispensational Bible church background. Still others will have come out of the charismatic movement. In this we will see reformation in the churches that have had no clear historic connection to the historic Reformed churches.

“In other situations, churches with a Reformation heritage have been busy throwing it all away. In their midst, there will be some who are distressed by the steady drift of these formerly evangelical Presbyterian and Reformed communions into various kinds of compromise, and so have consequently taken a stand.

“The principles which bring such disparate groups together are obviously not cultural, but rather scriptural and theological. Together we affirm these key scriptural principles stated here [dedication to authority of Scripture, affirmation of ultimacy of Scripture, reformational understanding of doctrine of salvation, ecclesiastical government that is presbyterial and representative, etc], and expect that they will continue to bear fruit in different cultural ways” (Douglas Wilson, Mother Kirk: Essays on Church Life, 53).