Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Martin Luther became "God's Hands" after he was caught out in the middle of a terrible storm. He prayed that he would be delivered and vowed that if this happened, he would become a monk in God's service. When the storm was over, he lived up to his word.

Little did he know that he would be walking into a much more powerful storm and this storm would last most of his life.

But he was not a person who ran away from making waves in God's business. After reading and praying, Luther became convinced that salvation came freely to every person directly from God. This was not the opinion that his superiors wanted him to have. They had been making good money for the church by selling "indulgences" (which meant that people were trying to purchase their salvation with money.)

He did not just whisper his ideas to other people close to him. He wrote it all out (Called 95 Theses), nailed it to the door of the Castle at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517.