The Lutheran Church has received the pure doctrine of God’s Word as a sacred trust. It is her peculiar calling faithfully to guard and administer it. The Church needs the Gospel of salvation by grace, needs it as it is taught by the Lutheran Church. “As our Church has been needed in the past, so she is needed in the present. She is needed not only for the motherhood to her own children, but for the great wants of Christendom and of the world. She is needed as a witness to that doctrine which is conceded in terms by the whole Protestant world, but which is invaded primarily or by necessary inference by every system which is at war with ours – the doctrine of justification by faith.” C. P. Krauth, The Lutheran Diet, 1877, p. 48. That means that, “if we as a Church no longer witnessed to this doctrine, we should as a Church be of no use in the world; no longer the salt of the earth, we should be fit only for the dunghill.” F. Pieper [Ninth Report Atlantic Dist., p. 34].
Popular Symbolics (1934)
by Engelder, Arndt, Graebner, Mayer
(page 23)
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The Lutheran Church has received the pure doctrine of God’s Word as a sacred trust. It is her peculiar calling faithfully to guard and administer it. The Church needs the Gospel of salvation by grace, needs it as it is taught by the Lutheran Church. “As our Church has been needed in the past, so she is needed in the present. She is needed not only for the motherhood to her own children, but for the great wants of Christendom and of the world. She is needed as a witness to that doctrine which is conceded in terms by the whole Protestant world, but which is invaded primarily or by necessary inference by every system which is at war with ours – the doctrine of justification by faith.” C. P. Krauth, The Lutheran Diet, 1877, p. 48. That means that, “if we as a Church no longer witnessed to this doctrine, we should as a Church be of no use in the world; no longer the salt of the earth, we should be fit only for the dunghill.” F. Pieper [Ninth Report Atlantic Dist., p. 34].
Popular Symbolics (1934)
by Engelder, Arndt, Graebner, Mayer
(page 23)
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