This last week as I sat down and watched the movie Luther with my awesome friends from the Calvary Baptist Church Youth Group, I really began to ponder and reflect upon something. The movie gives a fairly historically accurate account of the person of Martin Luther and the story of his life and obedience to God. He stood up against what he thought was wrong within the Catholic church of his day and began the Protestant Reformation. He saw a problem and he did something about it. He went from a man who was running away from Christ in a thunderstorm and falling in the mud, to one of the most influential men who has ever walked this earth. Over 540 million people today worship in churches that were a result of Luther’s stand. That is just today. 540 million people today worship in protestant churches. Think about the past 500 years and how many people’s lives have been changed and how many people have been shown the truth. All because one man took a stand to show what Christianity is really about and what it is really supposed to look like. Could a reformation like that ever happen again? Is there enough wrong with Protestant Christianity today that someone need stand? Maybe, maybe not, I have no idea. What I do know is that the church as whole today has innumerous flaws. So many “Christians” today don’t love God and they don’t love others. They serve themselves and no one else. The church itself does not need a reformation, Christians today need a reformation of the heart. We need to go back to what the bible says about God and life. We need to stop focusing on ourselves and how much money we’re making and how many people show up to church and get back to the heart of Christianity. Love God, love people. Stand up like Luther did. Stand up for what the truth. But know this, there will be consequences. Reform your heart and encourage other distracted Christians to do the same.
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