Well, welcome back. Here we are in the middle of our anniversary week on five minutes in church history.

We've been looking at the top five favorite moments of church history.

We looked at the early church and the event of 325 at Nicia and the Nicene Council and

Creed. We looked at a medieval date, 1245 and the great stalwart towering

figure of medieval theology, Thomas Aqu Aquinas and now we come to the

reformation. Well you knew this date was coming didn't you? 1517. All of us

who call ourselves Protestant we can trace our roots back to this date of 1517.

It was October of 1517 and October 31st to be exact. We need to travel to Germany and we need to come into

contact with an Augustinian monk. This monk has already had quite a training. He

was originally going to be a lawyer and made his way through academic circles achieving his law degrees.

Then he abandoned law as a career and entered the monastery and he made his way through the universities again,

racking up his theology and biblical studies degrees.

And in the process of all of the studying,

God was continually bringing to Luther's mind some ideas, ideas that had been obscured by the church,

ideas that were not preached from the pulpitts, and ideas that very sadly had lost their way. These ideas were very simply what we come to see

as the solas of the Reformation. But we're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit.

Luther isn't quite there in 1517. He recognizes that something is

wrong, drastically wrong with the church that he is a part of. And so he begins to

write out theses for a disputation.

He's looking for a debate, a good solid debate

with the best minds of the church

so that as the church thinks about its task and its mission, it can be biblically faithful.

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