When God revealed to Martin Luther "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17b), there was a revolution in his soul, which ultimately led to another revolution called the Protestant Reformation. This was to influence history for most of the following 500 years. While others before Luther had seen some of the truths he did, he was the catalyst. He was not a perfect man, but a man God greatly used. When a prominent Christian TV network founder recently sat with a Catholic priest (who has a program on his network), and he said "I am not a Protestant -- I am not protesting anything", this man was sadly exhibiting an attitude held by many professing Christians. He is not only ignorant of history, he is seemingly unaware of what is going on in our day. How can we not protest abortion, gay marriage, the coddling of child molesters, public indecency everywhere, and the attempt to silence preachers from speaking on biblical issues? Ironically, the Roman Catholic Church agrees with most evangelical protestants on much of this. They are being picked on by the liberal media and politicians as well as evangelicals. I still believe Luther was right, but we may have to fight the common enemy for now. Can you and I stand for righteousness and say what Luther said in 1521? "Here I stand -- I can do no other -- God help me!"
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