Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

All of these miraculous gifts [that characterized the apostles and the apostolic church] had a purpose: to confirm and seal the new revelation before the world in a divine way… These miraculous gifts were to be an outward testimony that the Gospel preached by the apostles really was a message from God and that the Christian Church founded by the apostles is really the Church of God, the elect, and the saved. —C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 646.