1. The crisis is not merely that people are leaving. The crisis is that we have relinquished what is uniquely Lutheran and deeply needed.
  2. This is an excerpt from Ditching the Checklist: Assurance of Salvation for Evangelicals (and Other Sinners) by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2025), pgs. 5-7.
  3. This is an excerpt from the introduction of “Common Places in Christian Theology: A Curated Collection of Essays from Lutheran Quarterly,” edited by Mark Mattes (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  4. The reformers were compelled to confess the true faith and challenge corrupt practices—this is what the Augsburg Confession is about.
  5. It’s not the disciples’ faith that invented the resurrection but the resurrection that gave birth to the disciples’ faith.

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