Martin Luther (413)
  1. This evening we will together take a very abbreviated look at what led Luther down the long road to the discovery of the Gospel.
  2. Lose trust in the free grace of the righteousness of Christ alone, and the holiness of the Church and all in her is lost.
  3. Left to ourselves, we are like Adam and Eve; we sew together fig leaves of self-righteousness and hunker down behind trees of flimsy excuses to hide in vain from a judgment we deserve.
  4. As Luther’s efforts at reform began to build, so did the vacancies in monasteries and convents across Europe as monks and nuns motivated by evangelical teaching left their orders for other vocations and opportunities, including marriage.
  5. Martin Luther has proven to be one of the most important figures in church history in light of his teaching on justification, which resulted in the sixteenth-century Reformation. However, in our own day many are seeking to rethink Luther.