Reading the life of Martin Luther was a big step for me in coming back to the Church.

This was one of the issues that grieved me the most seeing Martin breaking his vows made before Almighty God. A man trusted to minister the Eucharist will reinterpret the Eucharist, a man trusted to minister the Word of God will become lord over it.

Another was the chaos of everyone a priest in their own eyes and everyone interpreting Scripture as they saw fit.

It reminded me of the last verse of the book of Judges, “and everyone did what was right in their own eyes”.

One thing to realize that in the Evangelical world Martin’s biography will be sanitized to avoid such things as culpability concerning the Peasants Rebellion.