Reformation Sunday is coming. What is your Reformation Sunday service like? Is it all a “Rah-rah kicked the Pope’s butt aint-nothing-better-than-sliced-bread” fest? It shouldn’t be. The Reformers were just that. Catholics who were seeking reform not schism. The Reformation was the era when, 500 years after the East and West broke apart in the Great Schism, the west fragmented. We should rejoice that the truth of salvation by God’s grace through faith was upheld but we should also long for the church, the Holy Body of Christ, to “be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” (John 17:21)
So, celebrate Reformation Sunday in a good old Reformed way. Look across The Church through the lens of the already and not yet. Drink good German beer and grill some wurst but long for God’s people to visibly stand against the forces of darkness as one.
