19 December 2009

New Lutheran Quote of the Day

Even to acquire our temporal life none of us has done anything. It was given to us. (When did you ever 'accept' it?) And the same creative situation pertains to our eternal life (our justification). If we get it at all, we get it 'gifted' from God. Like 'simple' biological life we don't primarily accept it, but we receive it. We live it. -- Ed Schoeder (cited by Richard Jungkuntz, *The Gospel of Baptism* p. 115)

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