Do Your Best, and God Will Do the Rest?

Submission on SermonAudio · Oct 25, 2026 · 34m

On Reformation Sunday, Charles Sebold steps back from Luther's biography to ask what the church looked like before him, in "Do Your Best, and God Will Do the Rest." Luther did not stand outside a corrupt system throwing stones; he was the most faithful man inside a sincere system that could never tell him he was forgiven. Beginning with the 1505 thunderstorm that drove the young law student into the Augustinian monastery, the lesson surveys the medieval church: one Latin liturgy and Bible few could read, a papacy claiming submission to Rome was necessary for salvation even as Avignon and the…