Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

The life of God in the Church implies that each parish become more the body of Christ, continuing His ministry in loving and serving the world, that it deepen its corporate commitment and allegiance to God and to His Son as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, that it become more the family of God in which grace for obedience is to be had, in which faith is increased for facing life as it is in the confidence that we are not alone, but are related to God and to one another, and that nothing, not even death, can separate us from this relationship. -- A. C. Piepkorn, *The Church* p. 134