Reformation Day: What Is It?
Romans 3:21-31
By Harold D. Dinsmore, M.Div.
Ó2008 Harold D. Dinsmore 

Today I would like to share with you about a day in history that is commemorated on October 31^st of each year.  No, it’s not Halloween, but Reformation Day.  The Protestant church has remembered this day in history as the day they remember Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg chapel in Germany.

For many, this is the watermark for the beginning of the reformation.  In his book, Christianity Through the Centuries, Dr. Earle E Caines defines the reformation as “that moment of religious reform that resulted in the creation of the national protestant churches between 1517 and 1563.”

Martin Luther had begun a journey toward faith many years earlier.  He was an intense man with great conviction about many things.  He began to lecture on various books of the Bible and that, in order to do so intellectually, he studied the original languages of the Bible, which are Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.  He gradually developed the strong conviction that only in the Bible could true authority be found.  Between 1513 and 1517, he studied Psalms, Romans, Galatians and Hebrews.