"The Bible is alive, it speaks to me"

Luther Posts the 95 Theses
An obscure monk invited debate on a pressing church issue—and touched off a history-shattering reform movement.
By Dr. Eric W. Gritsch

Sometime during October 31, 1517, the day before the Feast of All Saints, the 33-year-old Martin Luther posted theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.


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Early on as a reformer, Luther publicly concluded that penance (the church sacrament involving confession of sin) wasn't a sacrament at all. Yet he continued to daily confess his sins to another person for most of his life.
—Herbert K. Jacobsen

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Martin Luther, "The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me."