Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

The sacrifical system was the nerve and sinew of the priesthood or ministry of the Jewish church, and the sinew of the public assemblies in which there occurred a general proclamation and transmittal to posterity of the true doctrine concerning God and His Son, our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ, who was offered as a victim for the entire human race. A parallel thus exists with the Lord's Supper, which in the New Testament is the nerve of the church's public assemblings and of the propogation both of the doctrine of the death of Christ as a victim immolated for our sins and of the teaching that the remission of sins and eternal salvation are assuredly given to any individual who in faith flees to Him for refuge. - David Chytraeus *On Sacrifice* p. 58