The Reformation, Its Causes, and Its Consequences
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 145 minutes
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The Reformation was not the beginning of the problems in the Western Church, nor in the Church more generally. Over the centuries before the beginning of the Reformation, generally accepted as 31 October 1517, the Church faced a number of heresies, divisions, and other problems. Yet God has always seen her through these tumultuous waters.
Today, we find ourselves yet again in need of reformation, for the existing church bodies are corrupt — virtually all from the top down. This does not mean that there are no faithful churches, that there are no faithful congregations, but we do, indeed, find ourselves virtually bereft of faithful, ‘official’ leadership.
To address these challenges and to restore Christendom, we will have to work together. Not as Lutherans or Reformed or Baptists or Romans or whatever other tradition or denomination we may call our own, but as Christians. This is not a call to abandon our distinctives or our doctrinal convictions; rather, it is a call to work together across these lines in the kingdom of the left hand of Christ.
God willing, our grandchildren will see a Christendom we have known only in history books.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:44.9 | On today's Stone Quire, we're going to be discussing the Reformation. |
| 0:49.4 | As many of you probably know, next week is the Reformation anniversary of what is observed as |
| 0:57.0 | Reformation Day, also known as Halloween or All Hallows Eve. The recognized first |
| 1:04.0 | Reformation Day, the day that's being commemorated is of course Martin Luther nailing the 95 |
| 1:09.3 | theses in 1517. And that has been marked as the beginning |
| 1:14.6 | of what became the Reformation. Obviously, at the time, Luther didn't know quite what a firestorm |
| 1:20.2 | he was going to be lighting by posting that. And we'll talk about that in a little bit. |
| 1:25.8 | Today's discussion is going to be mostly historical. Basically, |
| 1:30.0 | want to the Reformation and what left into it and what came out of it. The books that have been |
| 1:38.0 | written could easily fill multiple libraries, as Corey said before we started recording, |
| 1:42.5 | they're men who have spent their entire lives |
| 1:44.9 | dedicated to studying a small portion of the history of this. So in a couple hour podcast, |
| 1:51.6 | we're only going to barely even scratch the surface on just the high notes. The specific |
| 1:57.7 | overarching theme that I hope we can tease out of this, and the second reason |
| 2:02.6 | that we're doing a Reformation episode this particular week is that this is also the one-year |
| 2:08.5 | anniversary of Stone Choir getting started. |
| 2:11.7 | A year ago last week was the first episode that we dropped. |
| 2:16.1 | And when we had decided that we wanted to begin doing |
| 2:19.5 | a podcast together, Corey and I talked about, you know, kind of the reasons for it and what we, |
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