Reformation Day

Happy Reformation Day!  Kiss your favorite Lutheran.  Celebrate life, liberty, freedom, republican democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, equal justice under law, the rule of law, economic opportunity, the separation of Church and State, the preservation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the reclamation of that Gospel from ne’er-do-wells that would replace the Glory with mere human tradition and a fallible church of fallible men, the Scriptures in the common language of the people, the Lord’s Supper, justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone, the separation of powers, the abolition of monarchy, the purity of Christ’s holy church militant, the revival of the arts and music, the free proclamation of the gospel of grace, the perseverance of the saints, the priesthood of all believers, micro-breweries, samuel adams (a brewer-patriot), Bach, francisco ortega, john knox, johnathan edwards, charles hodge, gordon h. clark, gresham machen, francis schaeffer, c.s. lewis, jan huss, greg l. bahnsen, reformed baptists (who knew?), the distinction between justification and sanctification, justification by faith as the instrumental cause of justification by an imputed righteousness, a vicarious sacrifice, of both the passive and the active obedience of Christ, the remission of sins, the mortification of the flesh, the christian life, self sacrifice, obedience to the moral law of God, perishing daily, attention to the means of grace, spiritual union with Christ through faith, through faith alone but a faith that is never alone in the one justified but always accompanied by those other graces that express a true and lively faith, ulrich zwingli (yes I did), phillip melancthon, archbishop cranmer, queen elizabeth I, shakespeare, r.c. sproul, james madison, john cotton, alice cooper, the decentralization of governmental power, greenbaggins, and one nation under God.

Christopher Neiswonger