“The Modern Church is producing passionate people with empty heads who love the Jesus they don’t know very well.”
Pastor Wayne Edwards delivers another topical and hard hitting communication from the Heritage Baptist Church, Perry, Georgia, USA. Undoubtedly your world is in turmoil, and Pastor Edwards uges people to be prepared for possible food, water and service shortages. We are all living in very starnge times, and I’m hoping the zoo management have plenty of bananas in stock. To hear this sermon click on the words “Heritage Baptist Church” just above.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
PASTOR WAYNE WRITES:
Dear HBC Family and Friends,
· The sermon may be viewed at theheritagechurch.org
· The sermon will be available on our website: www.theheritagechurch.org
· THE WATCHMEN’S REPORT
October 31, 2026
Wayne J. Edwards, Pastor
My Fellow Watchmen,
Reformation Day celebrates the joyful beauty of the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ.
Martin Luther, a scholar, took quill in hand, dipped it in his inkwell and penned his Ninety-Five Theses on October 31, 1517. These were intended to spark a debate, to stir some soul-searching among his fellow brothers in the church. The Ninety-Five Theses sparked far more than a debate. The Ninety-Five Theses also revealed the church was far beyond rehabilitation. It needed a reformation. The church—and the world—would never be the same.
One of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses simply declares, “The Church’s true treasure is the gospel of Jesus Christ.” That alone is the meaning of Reformation Day. The church had lost sight of the gospel because it had long ago papered over the pages of God’s Word with layer upon layer of tradition. Mere tradition often brings about systems of works, of earning your way back to God. It was true of the Pharisees, and it was true of medieval Roman Catholicism. Didn’t Christ Himself say, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light”? Reformation Day celebrates the joyful beauty of the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ.
What is Reformation Day? It is the day the light of the gospel broke forth out of darkness. It was the day that began the Protestant Reformation. It was a day that led to Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and many other Reformers helping the church find its way back to God’s Word as the only supreme authority for faith and life and leading the church back to the glorious doctrines of justification by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. It kindled the fires of missionary endeavors, it led to hymn writing and congregational singing, and it led to the centrality of the sermon and preaching for the people of God. It is the celebration of a theological, ecclesiastical, and cultural transformation.
So we celebrate Reformation Day. This day reminds us to be thankful for our past and of our duty, our obligation, to keep the light of the gospel at the center of all we do.
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Pastor Wayne
Wayne J. and Linda J. Edwards
PO Box 766
Perry, GA 31069
706-599-3966
wnledwards@gmail.com
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