The Next Reformation - Audio
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This week being the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Do you know that? 500 years ago, 1517 Martin Luther inaugurated the Protestant Reformation on October 31st. So we celebrate Halloween, but it's actually also, and perhaps more importantly, the moment that the Protestant Reformation began. I don't know if you're like me, but boy, I feel like we could use another Reformation and quickly. I sense, and it could be wrong, but maybe you've sensed it too. I sense a lethargy in the church. Not at coast, but broadly in the Western church. I sense a kind of cultural drift that's happening. I sense a sense in which the church is either like kind of just sort of over here and the culture is off doing its own thing. Interestingly, when the Protestant Reformation happens, when the church split and reformed and all of that, the culture came with it. It was a tremendous religious revival in especially Northern Europe, Germany, the Nordic countries, other places. And boy, I feel like I sense that we could really use that right now. I don't know if you pay attention to the news, but every day it's crazy what goes on in our government, our media, Hollywood, all these places. I keep looking and just being honestly dispirited, really hurt like what's going on with this place? What's going on in Western civilization? But I do believe that God is real. I believe that God can do things. I believe that God could make something happen. I believe you could light a fire. And if you're like me, you wanna know what do we gotta do right now to be a part of that? To be a part of a change, a shift, a cultural and spiritual and religious reformation again. Another one, 500 years later, after Martin Luther inaugurated the first, that we could be a part of a second. That could happen here in this place and our families amongst us, that it could spread from here, that there's other places perhaps outside of Orange County, other churches and other communities that could be involved in this. And then if we all were doing this together,
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Pastor Tom discusses the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, raising the question: "What can we do right now to begin the next Reformation?"