Many may shout it as a slogan, but few will allow this New Testament principle to call all that they teach and all that they do and all their traditions into question. It is good to go back and see how the Reformers rediscovered this principle and turned the religious world upside down in their day. We too must be courageous and honest enough to rethink the great doctrines of the Bible. We can't even accept the idea that the Reformers said the last word either. We may have to plow some new ground.
Truth has nothing to fear from candid investigation.
Loyalty to truth does not demand that we react to every new thought like old ladies to a fresh breeze. Prejudice, guilt by association, and flattery are not the plummet, rule and square by which we can gauge truth's sacred edifice.