New Lutheran Quote of the Day

Instead of resting on mutually acknowledged needs, as the ordinary human community does, the Christian fellowship rests on the distinctive basis of the common sharing in Christ and His Holy Spirit. We need to be reminded repeatedly of Luther's remark: "Therefore they all pray, sing, and give thanks together. There is nothing here that one has or does for himself alone. But what has belongs to all the others too." -- Ernest Koenker, *Worship in Word and Sacrament* p. 35