New Lutheran Quote of the Day

The Lutheran understanding of the church and the means of grace also throws light.  The church is there where the means of grace are.  We hold to nothing less and nothing more.  These are extra nos and therefore sure.  We may not tamper or add.  We cannot permit the certainty to be undermined by the insistence on something of man whether it be polity of Popes, bishops, ore presbyters, a discipline or a degree of sanctification.  The means of grace are not within our judgment or control. -- Dr. Norman Nagel, CTM 1956 p. 708.