At the beginning of 1517, Martin Luther was virtually unknown. A nobody. A non-influencer. Just another monk, in another monastery, doing monkish things. But later that year, on October 31, Martin Luther posted 95 “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church. Theses were a list of items for an academic disputation. Although the theses were nailed to the church at Wittenberg, his intended audience was his fellow professors at the University. He was inviting them to a good old-fashioned verbal brawl, a roll-up-your-sleeves and get down in the mud kind of debate. Little did he know that he was starting the Reformation not with “here I stand,” but “here I pound.”
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