In honor of Reformation Day, here are some complaints I’m nailing on the
Wittenberg door.
Long before there was an Occupy Wall Street, Martin Luther staged the most
important protest in history. He was upset because Roman Catholic officials
were promising people forgiveness or early escape from purgatory in exchange
for money.
So on October 31, 1517, Luther nailed a long list of complaints on the door
of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.
Luther’s famous 95 theses were translated from Latin into German and spread
abroad. Like a medieval Jeremiah, Luther dared to ask questions that had
never been asked, and he challenged a pope who was supposedly infallible.
Through this brave monk, the Holy Spirit sparked the Protestant Reformation
and restored the doctrine of grace to a church that had become corrupt,
religious, dysfunctional, political and spiritually dead.
