Post Reformation Day Post

1 November is Reformation Day. I'm a little late on posting. I've been a little distracted. Our Internet has been turned off. In military parlance that's called a "commo blackout." Our brother infantry battalion lost a Paratrooper in a vehicle roll-over. This is coming on the end of the coat tails of the deployment. It's a hard hit right before our return. If you think of it, please pray for 1-Panther and the Family.

As commo came up I noticed some significant Christian blogs with the picture of Marty Luther posting his Thesis on the Wittenburg Door. When in college my friends and I celebrated Reformation Day together with some silliness. It was a lot of fun.

I grew up in a Family where my Dad was a devout Catholic and my mother Pentecostal. I like to say that after Church on Sunday at dinner time (lunch) we had holy wars. Not all the time, of course. But, it was kind of like Northern Ireland to take the metaphor farther. I had to do comparative religion at a young age. Well, my older brother, retired Air Force Officer and his Family have maintained the Catholic faith and so it still runs in my Family. He's been an Ordained Deacon in the Church for several years now. The polemics have ceased, but the wrestling with the doctrines of faith has not, at least in my mind.

He has been influenced by Pentecostal Pneumatology and just the shear experience of knowing God in the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. There is one particular story that if I wrote it out here, you would be taken aback by a bona fide miracle through the power of the Holy Spirit as it relates to the conversion of his friend one night. Perhaps I'll save that story for another time.

Here is a story from Christianity Today about the growing rift between Catholics and Evangelicals Together (ECT). ECT is not just a document that leadership from two sides of the Church signed, but it's a kind of a movement. Where has it gone? Where is it going? What does it mean in relation to John 17?

As a student in a Bible College I celebrated Reformation Day. Today, I wouldn't be so quick to post a picture of the great Martin Luther at the Wittenburg Door. Looking forward to reading Wright and Piper when I get home.