95 Theses.....On the door of the Castle Church in Witteburg. It's Reformation Day in Germany and we're celebrating where it all began. We sang Luther's own "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" in the Castle Church with about 100 other English speaking visitors.
Frederick of Saxony had Martin Luther exiled to Wartburg Castle near Eisenach for his own safety. During that time he penned the first translation of the New Testament into German in this room.
This was a beautiful fall day in Germany. We're standing in front of a statue of Johann Sebastian Bach who was born in Eisenach. His house is just to our right and is an amazing museum to Bach and musical instruments of his period. Bach fit right into our study of the Reformation. His music created to glorify God more than 200 years later served as a legacy of the Reformation that countered the Age of Enlightenment embodied in Frederick the Great of Prussia.
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