Reformation Day, a little late

While revelers, secularists, Catholics, and others celebrate All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween), some staunch Protestants and a few Protestant-leaning Baptists celebrate Reformation Day as a religious holiday on October 31st. 9-Marks seems to have posted several articles in recognition of the day. I do not agree with all in them, but I recommend the 3 following as worth reading.

• Four Ways the Reformation Changed Church History -- “Despite what the Catholic Church said, paedobaptism cannot confer grace and is not salvific. No one, by mere happenstance of his or her birth, is wrought in spiritual privilege.”
• Should Pastors Today Care about the Reformation? -- “...a growing knowledge of historical theology accomplishes wonders in destroying the illusion that insightful and rigorous exegesis began in the nineteenth or twentieth century.”
• Wise Men are Men, and Truth is Truth -- “We must sheepishly admit that none of our heroes is perfect, and that “warts and all” is the only sane way to embrace another human being.”