Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Now everyone wants to help the Church through polity. And yet the evil lies much deeper. The Church's decay did not come in first place from her form and external arrangement, however much this helped to bring to the depths in which we now behold her. The evil will therefore not be lifted through a mere change of polity. -- Wilhlem Loehe, *Aphorisms on the New Testament Offices and their Relationship to the Congregation* p. 86