Happy Reformation Day!

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, "Repent" he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

With these opening words of the Ninety Five Thesis, Martin Luther launched an attack on the Roman Catholic teaching on indulgences and began to lay the foundations for what would soon become the Protestant Church. On this day, we celebrate the faithless of God to his Church as shown through men like Martin Luther and others throughout the history of the Church who were dedicated to the proper understanding and clear teaching of the infallible Word of God.

Today we, as the Church, are living in the light of the truths of the Gospel that Luther, Calvin, and the rest of the Reformers unveiled. As God works out his plan for the expansion of his Kingdom in time and space, we look back with inexpressible gratitude to such key points in that plan. As we continue in the purposes of God, may we constantly rediscover the truths of God's grace in the person and work of Jesus Christ. As we do this, we will undoubtedly live out Luther's call to a life of repentance. As the vision of Christ is made clearer to each one of us, it will not fail to realign our thinking, to adjust our beliefs, and bring us to a place of repentance. From this place of repentance we will truly be able to say that we are "always reforming."