Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. It is Wednesday,

November the 1st, and we are resuming our normal schedule of once a week

episodes here at five minutes in church history.

If you were with us this past month,

you know that we spent every day of the month

trekking together through the life and thought

and the legacy of Martin Luther, but today is the next day, the day after.

And this is a good moment to pause and reflect. Not only what we can learn from the legacy of the

reformation but as we think about what will be our legacy church history is an ongoing book. The pages of church history are still

being written and chapters are still being added to it. We have a lot to be thankful for as we look back to the reformers.

We think not only of Luther, it wasn't just this reformation in Wittenburg, it was

across the German lands, but we could go down to the Swiss city states and see the

reformation there and what a great legacy those places have left for us.

We could go over to England and the legacy of the British Reformation under Henry the 8th and we could also go a generation ahead of that and see the Puritans and what a great legacy they've left us.

We have the Scottish Reformation and John... and what a great legacy they've left us.

We have the Scottish Reformation and John Knox,

and as all of these different reformation branches

made their way into the new world and settled in America,

as we have this landscape of American

Christianity. We see our roots back in the Lutheran Church of

Germany. At one point scripture talks about how we are drinking at wells that we did not dig and we are eating

at vineyards that we did not plant.

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