Today is reformation day, and it is another opportunity to thank God for his mercy and grace for his people at a time of darkness and lack of clarity about the gospel and the saving power of God, and his willingness to have his people repent and learn rightly of him.

The 95 theses nailed on the church door at Wittenberg on that fateful day were written not for public consumption but for an academic debate among colleagues; hence written in Latin, but the providence of God saw to it that it was the newly invented printing press coupled with the ingenuity of the people who translated it to the local language ensure that many outside the academic realm could also partake of those things that really matter about faith and salvation and repentance.

Many have written that it was not Luther’s goal to light a forest fire, but that is what happened.

In our time and place all these years later and looking at the state of theology, the knowledge of the gospel, and what has become of the churches today, it is not out of place to ask if we all won’t benefit from another reformation. R.C.Sproul says we don’t need a revival; rather, we need a reformation, as a reformation brings about a new form.

We have the opportunity of this celebration each year to check the health of theology, church, and the preaching of the gospel. Sproul also said we don’t look back at the reformation as a place to stay but as a place to look at the future from.