Tuesday morning

Discussing Luther and Jan Hus - two of the Reformers. They were deeply concerned with the direction of the Catholic church. One issue being the amount of influence and power being given to the pope - only Jesus is the head of the church. Those words got Hus a date with the burning fire pit.

Indulgences were a problem as well. What is an indulgence you ask? Basically for the right amount of donation to the church you could buy a few get out of sin free cards to free one of purgatory obligations for their sins. Luther could not find the pursuit of indulgences in the Bible. It seems that the right donation could buy one just about any kind of forgiveness, or ceremony that you might want. A child born out of wedlock could have that overlooked for the right price. Do we ever think about our tithe as buying our way to heaven or certain entitlements? Just a question that came to my mind. Luther was sure to remind that only Christ and faith in him could make that payment. Thank the Lord for that, especially in this economy:)

On to the afternoon.