What is Reformation Day?
It is the day the light of the gospel broke forth out of darkness. It was the day that began the Protestant Reformation.
It may be a cliché, but history is His story. God, who “foreordained whatsoever comes to pass” (WSC 7), is sovereign over the events, ideas, and people of history. We can study history as God’s providence throughout time. When we consider the period of the Reformation, God’s wisdom, goodness, and grace to His Church is on clear display.
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, the German monk, posted his 95 Theses on the church door in Wittenberg. He was protesting abusive practices and false teachings in the Roman Catholic Church, and intended to spark dialogue. What it sparked was a full-blown reformation and the formation of Protestantism.
“Through Luther’s bold words, the Holy Spirit blew into flame the smoldering coals of other movements across Europe, and the land which lay in darkness for so long began to grow bright under the uncovered beauty of God’s Word…The Reformation possessed as its heartbeat a devotion to the pure truth of the Holy Scriptures, especially manifest in the passionate exposition of the biblical doctrines of salvation by grace, true worship, and the pursuit of holiness.” (Beeke)
Isn’t this something worth celebrating in joyful remembrance and thanksgiving? Do you love God’s Word? Do you love the gospel of justification by grace through faith in Christ? Do you love simple, reverent, biblical worship? Do you love sincere saints seeking, by God’s grace, to live God-honoring lives according to God’s Word and not according to man-made traditions and commandments? Do you love the Protestant Confessions and Catechisms? Then, let us praise God for the Reformers and for how He used them to bring about Reformation and Revival. And let us earnestly pray that He would do the same in our own days. Happy Reformation Day!
Join us for our annual Reformation Celebration on Sunday, October 26 at 5:00 pm. There will be a light meal, refreshments, and a lesson.
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