Community messages were often posted on the doors of the church. So Luther’s actions would not have seemed strange to anyone watching. The message on that paper, however, would alter history.

As a professor of theology, Luther spent a lot of time studying the Bible. As the consequences of a life changing event Martin Luther was seized even more by the Words of the Bible. The more he studied, the more he found he disagreed with the doctrine of the Medieval Catholic church. The paper he nailed to the door of the Castle church listed 95 points of disagreement.

Luther wasn't' necessarily trying to start a public dispute with the church. He didn't realize that those 95 points, (now referred to as the 95 Theses), would spawn a revolution of thinking in Germany and across Europe and a revolt against the church establishment. Luther simply wanted to express his newly-discovered views of the Bible. He wanted to discuss them with other church leaders.

Without Luther’s knowledge, someone printed copies of his message on the newly-invented Gutenberg press. Those copies were distributed all over Germany. Within weeks, Luther's list of differences became the talk of the day. The Protestant Reformation had begun.

Just what was the Protestant Reformation all about? What did Luther and others protest? The primary debate was the matter of salvation; how man could have his sins forgiven and be restored to a right relationship with his Creator-God.

The established Catholic Church had taught that people could literally buy forgiveness for their sins with money given to the church hierarchy for that purpose. Luther’s 95 Theses protested this teaching. Luther and other reformers taught that God alone could grant forgiveness. The reformers also taught that religion and good deeds could not save people. They taught that salvation came only through faith in God’s Son, Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus the Christ).

"Through faith alone in Christ alone” began to be heard all over Europe. The reformers urged people to transfer their confidence for salvation from the church and its religious traditions to the Messiah alone. They encouraged people to read the Bible. They also preached that the Bible should serve as the Christian Believer’s final authority.

The established Catholic Church of the day violently protested this rebellion of the authority that they had manipulated and held so dear. Many believers paid the price of this rebellion with deep, deep sacrifice to include torture, loss of loved ones and life itself. The Reformation not only gave birth to Protestantism, but also brought about social, political, and economic changes.

One of the changes that the reformation produced is the Protestant doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. This concept later became the foundation for modern representative republics which is the governmental system of America. The equality of all men before God and the law undermined the absolutism of monarchs and popes who set themselves above the law.

Great sacrifices even of life and liberty were made so that common people could learn to read the Bible for themselves. As more people learned to read, more people also began to write in common languages. And as literature increased, public education followed. Primary schools began offering basic education in reading, writing, math, and religion.

Educated people began to pursue careers outside the church. Protestantism taught that work was a gift of God. So people worked hard. This work ethic led to scientific discovery, inventions, and wealth.

Politically, the religious debate spurred the Eighty Years War and the Thirty Years War. It also influenced the English Civil War. These conflicts forever changed the face of Europe.

The Reformation also spawned men such as John Wesley, George Whitefield and others who would later initiate The Great Awakening which occurred later in the American Colonies. Thus, the Godly  principles that were introduced during the Reformation had a very direct relationship to the Biblical understanding of America's founders.  And of course the Biblical understanding of America's founders had a great influence upon their approach to forming America as a Republic (as opposed to a democracy or monarchy), America's Godly Heritage, and then subsequently basing America's laws upon The Ten Commandments.

It is important that we affirm that Reformation Day is not a "halloween alternative". Halloween is a satanic, evil memorial that no one who has any thing to do with Yahweh or the Messiah Yeshua should have anything to do with (other than to speak against it).


Historicly Reformation Day commemorates Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses.  While we do not hold to all of Luther's theology, perhaps most notably his repugnance towards God's people of Israel (not the geographic Israel that we read about in the news today),  Reformation Day is an opportunity to stand together, united by all the many, many things that do bind those of us who hold the things of Yahweh God and Yeshua the Messiah together. 

It is a day to pay tribute and remember the great sacrifices that were made by men and women like Abraham (the Father of the Hebrew roots of our Faith), Yeshua's Apostles, Apostle Paul, William Tyndle, Jonathon Edwards, George Washington and many others  so that you and I could have the honor of knowing the Messiah; Of reading our Bibles freely, for ourselves,  allowing the Spirit of Yahweh God to speak directly to everyone through His written Word.  Though diverse, all of these men are tightly woven together by the thread of our wonderful Messiah; Yeshua. Reformation Day is a time to recognize this great thread that binds us all together and the great and many changes brought about by Yeshua's victory over death at His Resurrection.  Reformation Day is an opportunity to remember times in our history like the Reformation, the Great Awakening, the War for American Independence and other key events which affect every area of life of every person alive today; particularly in America.

Most importantly Reformation Day is a day we can set aside to commemorate our Salvation and the knowledge we have that our redemption cannot be purchased at any price that has not already been fully paid by Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah.


Let's join together!