Ministry of the Church (230)
  1. God's doing for us that gets done is Word and Sacrament stuff. Everything else flows from His speaking to us, baptizing us, bodying and bloodying us. Jesus sees our need.
  2. When the Holy Spirit is at work in the office of the holy ministry, the man is ridden by the Spirit and so his only concern is for preaching the Gospel, baptizing, absolving, and feeding sinners in the Name of Christ Jesus.
  3. The Christian Church is one of the last refuges in modern American society where people who have perpetrated or suffered trauma and violence can gather together to receive the truth about themselves.
  4. If it's not Christ Jesus "for you" they're not delivering the Gospel to you.
  5. The angriest people I meet are former Christians.
  6. Put to death by God's Word of Law, we are then raised to new life by God's Word of Gospel.
  7. Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"
  8. Every Christian is abundantly rich through baptism.
  9. So, what do we do when someone doesn't believe God's promise of forgiveness, life, and eternal salvation is for him?
  10. Take away the water, words, bread and wine. Can you be a Christian without water, words, bread and wine?
  11. Imagine a church's mission statement is: "You Don't Have to Fake It Till You Make It." That is, you walk into church and an usher hands you a bulletin
  12. In this evil generation we’re all in the dark about something. We’re all inevitably overcome by the darkness of sin and death.
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