Listen elsewhere: Anchor / Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts At its core, the Protestant Reformation was a struggle for the recovery of biblical assurance. The Reformed dissenters of the Roman Church recognized a disparity between the institution’s practices and the Bible’s words. They found that truth of the gospel didn’t leave room for indulgences or for the shaky grounds of purgatory. Rather, the facts of the gospel are simple: salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone. This is what the Reformers found anew. And incidentally, I do believe that after a quick glance at the modern church, we need to find it again.