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2 Sermon Illustrations on Reformation

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Reformation in Christian preaching highlights the transformative process of returning to true biblical faith by correcting errors and exposing spiritual corruption. It often uses images of exposing darkness or falsehood, emphasizing courage in confronting entrenched superstition and false practices (Romans 12:2). This theme underscores the ongoing call to renewal and faithfulness within the church.

Reform, Progress of

Reformers face opposition because they expose discord in others, not themselves.

If there were a hundred violins together, all playing below concert pitch, and I should take a real Cremona, and with the hand of a Paganini should bring it strongly up to the true key, and then should sweep my bow across it like a storm, and make it sound forth clear and resonant, what a demoniac jargon would the rest of the playing seem! Yet the other musicians would be enraged at me. They would think all the discord was mine, and I should be to them a demoniac. So it is with reformers. The world thinks the discord is with them, and not in its own false playing. Beecher.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster persecution

Superstition, Exposed

John Knox exposed superstition by boldly disproving a deadly church bell myth.

When John Knox began the work of reform in Glasgow, the idea prevailed, that, if a heretic should but touch the great bell in the church there, he would be struck dead instantly. He accepted the test on condition that the bell should be lowered into the street. He declared that it should either kill him, or he it. Then he stood over it, anathematized the Church of Rome, the pope, and the wicked priests. The superstitious crowd looked in vain to see the bold heretic fall dead. Instead, men armed with hammers, at Knox's order, broke the bell in fragments. Thus a great imposture was detected, Romanism defeated, and Protestantism established.

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