Saturday, October 30, 2004

Saints' Days

My friend Mike Fenimore said in conversation the other day, "The church without history, particularly the non-denomination's, is a church that cannot rise above shallowness.".
I was reminded of this when I went to a "Christian" book store to find a movie on Martin Luther for Reformation Day.
Surprise, surprise, no display celebrating reformation day; and in the movie rack only one copy of one movie on Luther.
How is it we can have a plethora of Veggi Tale movies that misrepresent Bible stories, and then completely forget our past?
Deuteronomy explicitly tells us not to forget our history, and the church continually(as did the children of Israel) disobeys.
So tomorrow let us join together in remembering our fellow saint, Martin Luther, and celebrate the reforms that freed a greater part of the body from the darkness of its day, and in remembering to press on to further the work of The Lord in our time, not living in the past but remembering and building on the former works of those who lived and worked before us.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Onward and upward!
For the Kingdom and the Shire!

12:58 PM  
Blogger Holly said...

Preach it, brother!

1:12 PM  

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