New Lutheran Quote of the Day

After confessing the Office of the Holy Ministry, instituted by the Lord for the delivery of the salvation gifts confessed in Article IV, our attention is no longer directed to the ministers but to the means of grace, which have been put there so the men who occupy the office can give them out.  Thus we are left in no doubt that it is the Lord Himself who is doing what the pastor has been put there to be His mouth and His hand for. -- Dr. Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, pp. 264, 265.