Reflection #  5

     When we talk about reformation in the history of the church we need to look back the time of Martin Luther, I know that there are many minor reformation that had happened before his time, but we can see a major events of reformation in Luther's time. Martin who though grew as a Roman Catholic God used him to see the the need of the Biblical teaching to be reform against the Roman Catholic church, as we can remember the roman church used the Church as a way to gain money through indulgences, then Martin saw that problem in the church, then he try to correct that mistakes by writing the 95 thesis to oppose that teaching , but sad to say the church called him as a heretics. this time was a dangerous situation to go against the Church because if you do, you will gonna face the Pope and even being excommunicated, but Luther stand on the ground on what is the truth that the Scripture was teaching. Even in our times we can still see the evidences of that practices that taught by our Roman Catholic brothers, they still claim on the teaching that outside the Roman Catholic Church there is no salvation, then Luther understand that salvation is by grace through faith not by being a member of any church. I am so thankful personally because God used those people the Luther to maintain the orthodox teaching of the Bible, and we have that benefits for today, they are the reason why we have the doctrines of the Bible alone, and salvation by grace that we claim today. Luther was one of many people that God used in the past to help the Christianity being preserve. God also used Erasmus to help the reform, then Anabaptist and the Radicals also contributed to enlighten the reformation.