So, once again this year, I’m opting out. I’m not criticizing anyone; I just do not participate. Maybe it’s because of the origins of Halloween. Maybe it’s having to see all the representations of death everywhere you turn. Maybe it’s because of the playful attitude toward the “spirit world.”

There is something that happened on October 31 a long, long time ago that hardly anyone ever talks about any more. The Reformation was born.

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther wrote to Albrecht, Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, protesting the sale of indulgences. He enclosed in his letter a copy of his “Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” which came to be known as The 95 Theses.

Hans Hillerbrand writes that Luther had no intention of confronting the church, but saw his disputation as a scholarly objection to church practices, and the tone of the writing is accordingly “searching, rather than doctrinaire.”

It is very noteworthy that Luther’s study of the Scriptures illuminated his eyes to what was going on in the organized Church in his day and time. So, at this time of year, I would rather remember how the Scriptures opened the eyes of a hungry heart. And 500 years later, God’s Word has not changed. It still illuminates the hungry soul, and brings deliverance to those who choose to believe it.

Mike Verdicchio
2013

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