EPISODE #116: Ted asks about what single book Christians should aim to make sure to read. Rod talks about the state of education in Luther’s day and what value such a teaching tool had for an illiterate citizenry, what this one book (or almost a pamphlet) was able to do for Christian believers very rapidly, and what role it had…
That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.
The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.