October 31, 2017 was 500 years since Martin Luther had his ninety-five thesis nailed on the Roman Catholic Church door. What seemed to be just issues a clergy had with regards to his displeasure within the church, had eventually reshaped the history of Christianity. Luther and the other protestant reformers did not want to cause a breakaway from the Roman Catholic Church but to make known areas which they felt conflicted with their interpretation of the Bible. The aim of the study is to test validity of Klopper’s theory of optimisation of human communication (TOHC) in comparison to how Protestant reformation, communication developed when they were in the movement phase to when they saw themselves in the organisational stage. Klopper’s theory of optimisation of human communication (TOHC) is used as the theoretical framework for this study. During the movement phase of the reformation, basic forms of communication was used and as it developed into different Christian organisations, many different forms of communications were used.