Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.
It would be hard to find one verse in the Bible that more succinctly and clearly states the whole point of Martin Lutheran and his reformer friends. This is why there are Lutherans. This is why Lutherans are a prepositional people: we think the prepositions are really important. BY grace you have been saved THROUGH faith. It puts everything in the right order.
Sometimes I wonder whether there's still a point in there being Lutherans, 500 years later. I mean, we all are asking different questions with our lives than medieval Germans were asking. But then I remember this. I remember that salvation, life, and everything we are gifts of God. I guess I still believe there's a need for that message in the world.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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