I've stated this before, but for the sake of this particular blog post I'm going to restate it: I'm a Lutheran.
A Lutheran? you might ask, What's a Lutheran?
I love this question because of the beautiful answer I get to give. You see, the founder of my religion was a German fellow by the name of Martin Luther. Luther was a Catholic priest, and one day while he was looking through the Bible for his next sermon he came across a passage that read, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast" (Eph. 2:8-9). He wondered to himself why he had never heard that passage before. And with that, he decided to nail 95 Theses to some church doors and began the Protestant Reformation.
This is the great thing about Christianity. You don't have to be a perfect saint for your entire life in order to go to Heaven; you could realize at the end of your life that God is great and wish that you had been a saint. And that realization, that wish... they're your salvation....
~Godspede
