A View Toward Reformation

This upcoming Saturday is October 31, children all over the country will be going from house to house seeking treats and sweets to eat on this Halloween. In Mexico, it is the eve of Dia de los muertos. In some traditions of Christianity it is celebrated as All Saints Eve. I, and my church will be observing this day in light of another significant historical event. There is another point of significance to this day that many people are not aware of.

492 years ago, on October 31, a young German monk posted a document on the door of the church building in a small town known as Wittenberg. The sound of the nails being pounded to that door were heard around the world and are still heard to this day. That monk was none less than Martin Luther and that document was the 95 Theses.

The publication of that document by the Guttenberg press created a firestorm of controversy and launched a new movement. That movement became known as the Protestant Reformation.

While others before Luther had laid the foundation, it was not until this time that he and other contemporaries, such as Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin, served as catalysts to launch this great Reformation.

In remembrance of that day and these men, I will be posting, starting tomorrow, a daily post on one of each of the Solas of the Reformtion. They are:

Sola Gratia: Grace alone
Sola Fide: Faith alone
Solus Christus: In Christ alone
Sola Scriptura: Scripture alone
Soli Deo Gloria: to God alone the glory

I will go in that order. Check back daily.

Soli Deo Gloria,

Pastor Mark