Happy Reformation Day!

Have you read the 95 Theses? Somehow when you read them today, you don't get the thunder and lightening that accompanied them when Luther posted them on the notice board in Wittenburg. Then, it was a new awakening.

Or maybe I'm reading them wrong.

The Reformation still has a lot to say to us and our times, especially to the "self-made" and "do-it-yourself" versions of Christianity available in the faith marketplace. The message of grace and the love of God as the saving agency for all is still not being heard.

So do we go to worship in our churches to placate and angry God and hope the we'll become worthy of having the Creator cut us a break? Or do we go and give thanks that "... God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)