Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

The Holy Scriptures are the infallible and inerrant record of God's revelation of His saving grace to men. Since the revelation was made long before it was committed to writing, the record is not the sole source of the truths which it contains. The first source of the New Testament message was the oral communication of this revelation by Christ and his Apostles. As it is not the record, but the truth borne by the record, which is the organ of the regenerating and converting influences of the Holy Spirit, this same truth orally communicated in the Apostolic days and since them, is just as efficient as when it is read from the pages of Scripture. - Henry Eyster Jacobs, *Elements of Religion* p. 23