The True Reformation

Schlosskirche in Wittenberg¹

The true reformation was not a consequence of 95 theses posted on a Wittenberg door for debate 500 years ago today, but rather it was the revelation of the light of the Scriptures. For a thousand years it had been encrypted in Latin and sequestered in cathedrals and seminaries and monasteries while untold masses perished — ever in want of the "words of life."

But in a moment in time Tyndale, and others who translated His Word into the languages of the lost, caused even the “boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scripture than” those who inhibited the cathedrals and seminaries and monasteries of that world that once was. The Scriptures, replicated by a revolutionary technology, quickened multitudes to be “born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Peter 1:23).

These new believers were the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, the persecuted, they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, those who desired to be called the children of God. 

Because "believers only" baptism was an easily identified act of obedience, they were often referred to as Anabaptists (re-baptizers). Averting the aspersion, they called themselves the Brethren of the Lord; those who obediently followed His plain and simple Word.

And they were not a just another sect, they spring up everywhere in "a moment in time."



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