This Sunday is Reformation Sunday.
Michael Milton believes that it should be rediscovered.
There are many Protestant churches that will have a October festival. There are some who will even have a hymn-sing this last Sunday in October. Others will seek to redeemer Halloween as an opportunity for some good, clean fun and fellowship at their churches. I have no problem with any of those things and think they are rather nice and fun. Yet there is an opportunity, a most important one in the church calendar, to move beyond nice and fun to human and cultural transformation. For I wonder how many will be observing Reformation Day? Reformation Day recalls not only the historical event of October 31, 1517 and the nailing of the 95 thesis by Martin Luther to the church door at Wittenberg, but the ensuing revival that shook the world. It was, indeed, a revival and not simply a political realignment of Papal or princely allegiances. It drew divisions in the human soul, from lost to saved, from thinking thoughts after superstition and extra Biblical doctrines that were covering Biblical faith, to new life in Christ. It was a time to exalt godliness, raise up the banner of the supremacy of the Word of God, and a recovery of the Augustinian—the Pauline—doctrine of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to God’s glory alone.
I believe that we need to recover Reformation Day in our churches.
Read the rest of Milton’s post here.
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