Though Martin Luther is sometimes someone we Anglicans want to shy away from, Greg Peters makes the case for being proud to be Protestant on this Reformation Day. Read it here. An excerpt, to whet your appetite:
You see, Martin Luther, for all his flaws (and there were many) had re-discovered one very simple truth: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8).
The way I see it, to be Protestant is merely to be Pauline, to be biblical. Do you have to be Protestant to be Pauline and biblical? No. But to be Protestant in the 16th century was to be both of these things.
I also really like the way he points out that the Anglicans who claim not to be Protestant are being just a little - shall we say? - imaginative.
peace of Christ to you,
Jessica Snell
p.s. This is not an anti-Catholic or anti-Orthodox post, except insomuch as I think that Catholics and Orthodox are, well, wrong. But if I didn't think that, I'd convert, eh? :) I'm perfectly aware and okay with the fact that my Orthodox and Catholic readers think I'm wrong. We are all Christians though, believing the doctrine of the Nicene Creed, and I think we all share a faithful belief that Christ will sort us all out in the end.
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We must be careful in blanketing the Catholic faith as Christian. Many within the church are possibly believers, but in spite of their church. Their church proclaimed that those consistent with Catholic faith will consider anathema, all those who believe that salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone (Vatican II). The protestant faith is diametrically opposed to this, so much so that it is another religion altogether - salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, and anything short of that is not a saving faith.
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