This week we celebrate Reformation Day, October 31st, 1517, the day that started the

Reformation and gave rise to Protestantism.

To help us celebrate, I have a special guest joining us, Dr. R.C. Sproll. Welcome back, Dr. Sproll.

Oh, thank you, Dr. Nichols. It's great to be with you. Well, I'm happy to have you with us.

Let's start with the contemporary Bible study question.

What does Reformation Day mean to you?

Well, you know, the scriptures all the way back

have reference to what we would call a holy space,

and a holy ground, but also sacred time,

moments in time that define everything that would come after it.

And when I think of Reformation day,

I think of that moment in history,

and particularly in church history,

where everything changed.

This was the watershed moment with Luther's writing the theses and

tacking them up on the church door at the Kestle Church at Vittenberg.

And here we saw the recovery of the gospel. That gospel is so sweet and so important to me and

I enjoy celebrations, I enjoy birthdays, I enjoy the 4th of July I'm glad to live in the United States I'm glad I enjoy

Thanksgiving Day but these days all pale into insignificance

compared to that day in history when the gospel was brought

out of darkness and into the light with the beginning and the advent of the reformation. And so in terms of our heritage as Christians, this is a time to celebrate.

It really is and these moments of celebration can help us remember what we're celebrating and why we're celebrating.

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