First Lutheran Church

To understand why we are called Lutherans, one must learn of the man who started what would be the protestant reformation and is responsible for us being able to read the Bible in our own language. This doctrine, with his conviction that the Bible should be the basis of religious life and available to all, became the theological foundation of Protestantism. Luther was not the first or the only Christian to come to these conclusions, but he arrived in a time of rising nationalism and, thanks to the recently-invented printing press, unprecedented written communication. With his 95 Theses against the abuses of indulgences, Martin Luther unwittingly sparked religious and political reform in Germany and founded the Lutheran branch of Protestantism.