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Editor, Wisconsin Christian News:Will we ever learn that history does, indeed, repeat itself? So it was five hundred years ago that Martin Luther, a priest in Germany nailed his 95 “objections” on his church door. For him personally, matters got worse.
You know the story: rejection, persecution and into hiding. However, other refermers began to follow his lead, often imprisoned, tortured, even burned at the stake, while others watched.
Courageous translators of the Bible, into the language of the common people did so, willing to suffer the consequences if caught.
Martin Luther boldly said, “Here I stand!” Then others began to stand with him and the Protestant Reformation was born.
Now, five hundred years later, who is paying attention to the fact that negotiations are currently in progress to undo what Luther and other devoted reformers suffered and died to obtain? Just think how far we have come. Churches that have been established, Christian schools, hospitals, missionaries now scattered around the world, evangelists, revivals, all having won multitudes of lost souls, have ministered to the needy and contributed greatly to the establishment of this nation and it’s ideals.
Christianity is now the leading ministry of the Word of God, with Jesus Christ as the only way of Salvation.
Esau sold his birthright to his younger brother, Jacob, for a bowl of stew, and then complained and was angry for what he had bargained away.
On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, which cost others so much, are we no longer willing to STAND for what others paid dearly for? Yes, and to go back to what caused Luther and others to suffer, to gain for us with their blood, sweat and tears?
Why has the Church been sitting, while legalized abortion has continued these many years, and like German citizens during the Jewish holocaust, looking the other way; here we’ve been doing the same thing. All that made this nation great is eroding away, perhaps too far gone to recover. Only by the grace of God can this be turned around.
The left is on the move, while Christians just SIT, perhaps complaining, often indifferent, giving up or waiting hopefully that President Trump will make us great again.
We Christians, it seems, have chosen to simply sit and watch. And still, here we sit!
-Don Peckham, Nevada, MO
