Good Shepherd Community Church

Martin Luther and Huldrich Zwingli were the first of the Reformers in the 16th century. Both were Roman Catholic clergy. Luther was a monk and theology teacher- Zwingli a parish priest. Both of them obtained hot off the press a copy of Erasmus's Greek New Testament in 1516. Encountering the raw text of the Bible in Greek helped uncover and correct mistranslations in the Latin Vulgate. Ultimately Luther was converted as he came to understand Romans 1-17. Zwingli became greatly influenced from preaching through the text of the Gospel of Matthew. After he recovered from near death in the plague of 1519 his breakthrough is recorded in his -plague poem.- God's Word is powerful and works the miracle of regeneration and conversion as the Holy Sprit moves in the heart of people.