Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

In an approach that largely gives the Church of the Augsburg Confession her specific and distinctive character, the Reformation described the Sacraments as "signs and testimonies of the divine Will toward us, instituted to awaken and confirm our faith." Thus the Sacraments become the individual application of the universal promise in the fellowship of the Church, the conveyance to each single person in all his singularity and personal aloneness of the grace that is God's gift-in-common to the whole Mystical Body of Christ. - Piepkorn, *The Sacred Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions* p. 77