I am here in Wittenberg, Germany, this small village, and I have one of my favorite people that always joins me on Fearless, Skip Heizek.

But we are in this city square that over 500 years ago changed the world, changed our faith of how we view Jesus Christ and His grace.

And it was right here where Martin Luther, a priest that had a holy conviction, I'm sorry, he was a monk.

He was an Augustinian monk.

And he had a hammer.

And he came up here on October 31st and changed the world and changed Christianity.

And that I'm thankful.

And we're going to talk about that.

And we're going to talk about why the Protestant Reformation is important today, what it was and what we need to learn from it and hold those

truths today.

Hi, I'm Sissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture.

Skip, we are here in Wittenberg, Germany. This is ground zero of the Protestant Reformation.

This is where Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis to the door that shook the world.

But we might need a little bit of a history lesson.

Tell us what is the Protestant Reformation?

So the Protestant Reformation began with Martin Luther dealing with an existential dread that he lived with.

The Germans have a word called Anfectungen, which is this idea of alienation and despair.

And he felt that very keenly.

And it was that that eventually drove him to the point of

nailing the 95 thesis. So a little bit of background. He was raised in a normal German family,

went to church, etc. But what drove him to become an Augustinian monk was this sense of, I need to get right with God.

And he never ever did feel right with God. He felt so alienated from God. And only the sacraments

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