.:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::.

I always laugh when people talk about October 31 being the “devil’s day.” I’m such a poor student of history, that it wasn’t until 5 years ago that I learned that October 31 is also the day that Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses on the church doors of Wittenburg, Germany (October 31, 1517).

So to some October 31 is also Reformation Day. This is a huge day in the history of the church. Without the providential efforts of Luther, Calvin, and Knox in the Protestant Reformation, it’s likely that we’d all be Catholic. So, between the candy, thank God for these men and their fiery committment to the His Word.

* Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone!
* Solus Christus - Christ Alone!
* Sola Gratia - Grace Alone!
* Sola Fide - Faith Alone!
* Soli Deo Gloria - Glory to God Alone!

“The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellarful of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two hundred proof grace - of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the Gospel - after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps - suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started… Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case.”

– Robert Capon