This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It is a year of celebration, because the Reformers accomplished what they claimed: They stripped away idolatries that had encrusted and obscured the gospel of grace, and they reformed the Church's worship and ministry to conform to the good news of Jesus. Luther was a witness to the gospel, and the Reformation was one of the greatest outbursts of the Spirit in human history.
Yet our celebration must be tempered by an unflinching acknowledgement of the tragedy of ongoing division between Catholic and Protestant and among branches of the Protestant movement.
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