07 March 2011

New Lutheran Quote of the Day

We trust that the Lord of the Church, who awakens the dead, can also awaken churches that are dead or dying, just as He awakened our hearts to faith that were dead in sin. However, we declare it superstition to suppose that He will produce a miracle to do what he has entrusted to us, the servants of the church, and what we in our laziness and cowardice, in our love of ease, and in our fear of men again and again fail to do. -- Hermann Sasse, *We Confess:  Jesus Christ* p. 69.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5:44 PM

    Sasse had nailed it. The local
    parish can ill afford to have a
    complacent and ill-prepared pastor.
    The calling of the clergy is to
    serve the Lord and share the means of
    grace. There must be a passion
    within the pastor's heart that his
    ministry is to be Christ-centered
    and not a self-centered life of ease.
    May the Lord give us humble servants
    in the pastorate.

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