This article, The Importance of Confessionalism Amidst Cultural Decline, was published at Broken Wharfe.
By our Confession, the church down through the ages comes alongside us, points to Scripture and reminds us of what it teaches, regardless of the pressure or pain to say otherwise. We can say to those who have capitulated and compromised that they are the divisive ones, having departed from what the church has taught according to Scripture. When we are slandered as bigots, we can say that we are neither motivated by prejudice nor do we speak with malice, since we are only saying what Christians have said according to Scripture for centuries.
Confessionalism is a great help in fighting pressures to make the Bible say something less costly than it does in our own generation.