Here's Nancy DeMoss-Wallamuth.

Five hundred years ago this month, the Protestant Reformation brought about a new emphasis

on Scripture.

Lay people were freed to read the Bible in their own language and to understand God's

word for themselves.

My friend Betsy Gomez experienced her own reformation along with her family.

And she says that you can have a Reformation of Grace as well.

So we as a family, we will celebrate big time the Reformation because we grew up not having the scripture as our authority.

Our experience were our authorities.

So when the Lord set a hunger in our hearts for the Word,

we started realizing that we needed to filter everything through the scripture.

I mean, we were grown-ups already. We were leaders in a church. We were teachers already.

But honestly, the scripture was not our main authority. So when we started looking at the scripture,

the Lord brought a revival in our hearts,

in our minds, in our families.

So everything started falling into place.

We started looking ourselves as we really were, sinners.

So the Lord, through his word, align our lives to his purpose.

We started functioning as a family according to the Word of God.

Instead of being conform to the world, we experience our own reformation as a family.

My friend Susan Hunt reflects on the importance of this event

for each of us today. The Reformation is very personal for me. When Martin Luther rediscovered

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