Notes.

• Reformation - the process of changing the church
• Catholic Church - lost sight of spiritual mission
• The church needed money.
•  The Pope Leo hired someone to charge people for their forgiveness of sins. 
• Indulgences are money paid for sins 
• Martin Luther was a monk who believed in the justification by faith.
• He wrote the 95 thesis and tacks them to the door of the church in Whittenberg.
• ^ 95 statements were against indulgences.
• Martin Luther expelled from the catholic church.

1.   Catholic Church - lost sight of spiritual mission
2.  Popes did not set an example of moral leadership.
3. Priest engaged in misconduct.
4. The church became interested in income, rather than saving souls.
5. No central government in Germany. (Which meant no control over religious ideas or papel abuses.
6. Tetzel began selling indulgences.
7. Luther was summoned to appear infront of the imperial diet. (Council of Catholic Church) In Worns, Germany.
8. Luther is commanded to abandon his ideas. - He refuses.
9. Luther is banished from the empire.
10. Luther translates the Bible into German.
11. Luther's works & ideas continue to spread.
12. Luther establishes the first Protestant Church.
13. First denomination was Lutheranism.