Lutheran: I get far less trouble from the bishop of Rome

‘There is a sort of sour gloominess at the prospect of organizing still one more micro-church body for Lutherans in America. Somehow I just don’t think this is what the world has been awaiting…’

‘There might be a few subsidiary issues to settle, but get us inside first and everything else becomes manageable…’

‘Our Lutheran confessional documents—notably the Augsburg Confession of 1530—forcefully argues that nothing Lutherans taught was contrary to the faith of the church catholic, nor even contrary to that faith held by the Church of Rome. As it has happened, much to our Lutheran chagrin, late twentieth century Rome itself become a better witness to an evangelical gospel than early twenty-first century Lutherans have proved capable of being…’

‘I get far less trouble from the bishop of Rome…’

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