It’s 1:08 AM, I was in class for 9 hours and drove over 3 hours, therefore I’m going to keep this brief (I hope). Today being October 31, 2010, I decided to go to Christianity Today’s website and get an article on the Reformation. For those of you who are unaware, today is the day we celebrate/remember Martin Luther’s 95 Theses being posted in Wittenberg. Instead, I found one article on why the devil should get Halloween and several political issues.
One of the troubling things for me is that we are completely unaware or do not care about our history. We care so much about our new fads and which pastors are popular but we are forgetting the roots of where we come from. What are we to pass on to our children and congregation members if we do not know who we are ourselves?
This complete lack of respect for the saints who have gone before us is not only a stumbling block for me but it causes me to worry about the future of the Protestant Church. If we are not aware of our history, we are going to be so immersed in the idea that we belong to our denominations rather than the whole body of God. Our ecclesiology will begin to be weakened because we no longer remember that we were one catholic church before the split which Luther never intended. We will look at churches as Y’all vs. Us rather than getting together and loving one another, regardless of our differences.
How big is your view of the body of God? Is it the 100 or 5000 people in your own church building? Or does it encompass ALL of brothers and sisters, including those who belong to the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church? I just ask that when you read your Bibles, look for the emphasis of being a unified body of believers, even among Jews and Gentiles.
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