One of the most significant developments which came out of the Reformation in the 1520s was the approval and re-affirmation of marriage; that it was, and it is, a good thing, for all men unless they have the gift of celibacy, the gift of remaining single. You will recall that monasticism was a tremendous movement which had begun a thousand years before, and was still strong in the days of Luther. It was as a monk, in the convent at Erfurth, that Luther had found the Bible, and in finding the Christ of the Bible, after long asceticism, a long course of being monkish, that he finally in 1525 came to better views of marriage. I believe that this was an integral part of his helping to pour out God’s wrath on the system of Roman Catholicism.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
