MARTIN LUTHER

This guy was pretty much amazing...
When he was a little kid, he got WHACKED multiple times on the hand for speaking German, instead of Latin on the school playground. He did not like his teacher (Master Heindrick, but more like Master Bully.) but he really liked to learn and gain knowledge. When he became a little bit older, his dad wanted him to be a lawyer. So he went along w/ it, because he really did not want to be a monk, like some of his other friends...
But this is the cool part....a part of his story is similar to Paul the apostle's story.
He was traveling to law school...when suddenly, a HUGE storm broke in. A lightning bolt cracked really close to him on the ground..and long-story short...He fell to the ground and said "Help me, St. Anne, and I will become a monk." So, he ended up surviving the storm...and he became a monk...his dad was pretty upset, because all of the money put towards law school was pretty much wasted...but Luther felt like he made a deal w/ God and he could not break it...
Some time had passed when he got the revelation out of Romans 1:17 that we are not saved by works. He later then saw one of the other monks passing out papers with which you could "buy" away your sins.....Martin thought this was very wrong, so he wrote the 95 theses (reasons) of what was wrong...he did not know that this would start a whole reformation and eventually start a whole new church...
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