A Word from Bob: Today’s post is Part 3 in a three-part blog mini-series on Reformation Week and the life and ministry of Martin Luther. You can read Part 1 here: Cropping Christ Back Into Your Picture. And Part 2 here: Staking Our Life on Christ Alone. I’ve developed this mini-series from my book Counseling Under the Cross: How Martin Luther Applied the Gospel to Daily Life. While many celebrate October 31 as Halloween, Protestants around the world celebrate October 31 as Reformation Day—the day Martin Luther launched the Reformation. This is his story…and our story—the story of the joy of salvation in Christ alone.
Luther’s Tower Experience
Luther’s tower experience is so called because it occurred in the tower of the Black Cloister in Wittenberg at an undetermined date between 1508 and 1518. In later years, Luther often reflected on this experience and saw it as the breakthrough for which he had been searching:
“The words ‘righteous’ and ‘righteousness of God’ struck my conscience like lightning. When I heard them I was exceedingly terrified. If God is righteous (I thought), he must punish. But when by God’s grace I pondered, in the tower and heated room of this building,
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