New Lutheran Quote of the Day

This Christ, bodily and, if you will, bloodily present in the Sacrament of the Altar, is not merely a human being.  He is the human being, the model, the standard, the blueprint, the die, that determines what authentic humanity is, from the first human being to the last.  We human beings - all of us - have not only our salvation but our very humanity in Christ.  He stands both as the initial and the ultimate man, the exemplar of human virtue in its most eminent perfection and the one whose irrefragable integrity stands as the judgment upon all our lapses from genuine humanity.  -- A. C. Piepkorn, The Church, p. 191.