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Links mentioned in this episode: Anxiety Detox Webinar West Coast Christian Writers Masterclass Reformation and Scripture When Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Wittenburg Door, he threw the first punch in a doctrinal fight. It was not Luther’s objective to split the church. He only wanted to correct the ship’s doctrinal course, and to return the Church to her most fundamental truths such as justification by faith and the authority of Scripture.  This triggered an epic brawl scholars call the Protestant Reformation.  It is Protestant because it flowed out of Luther’s protest against the false teaching and excesses of the church.  It is a Reformation because it unburied important theological structures from an avalanche of ecclesiastical, political, and theological debris.  Reformation has to do mainly with theology and doctrine. The Protestant Reformation also happened to trigger a Revival, but let’s save that for the final chapters.  The first urgent requirement to deliver the church from her