Territorial Bloggings

Mea culpa — I didn’t post anything about Reformation Day yesterday.
So, I’ll make up for it by directing you to two great posts over at Cyberbrethren: We Should Not Refuse to Walk in Our Fathers’ Footsteps & Does Being Lutheran Matter?

I’ve said it before, I’m saying it now, and I’ll say it again: Thank God I’m Lutheran! For there is no clearer explication of the Gospel of Christ Jesus given us in the Bible than what was boldly confessed in the Book of Concord. We must never be seduced by the temptation to trade away the rich birthright of the faith handed down by the Fathers for the pottage of cultural “relevance” and/or temporal popularity.

Such temptations promise much but deliver little, and what little is delivered is so fleeting as to be ephemeral and useless. If provides no comfort against the onslaught of daily life. It gives us no protection against the sin that batters us mercilessly.

Only Jesus Christ, and Him crucified gives us any hope, comfort, or protection. And nowhere is that good news delivered any more clearly than in the Lutheran Church!

-ghp