Robert Kolb > Quotes

“Good preachers...are effective teachers, good thinkers, with rhetorical skills, a good voice, a good memory, and the ability to recognize when to stop. They are diligent in their preparation, throwing heart and soul into their sermons, and they must be ready to take criticism. They should remember that they must patiently bear such criticism and dissatisfaction with their preaching. But above all, preachers must know that the Word of God has taken them captive and that God has called them to serve Him by proclaiming that Word.”
― Robert Kolb, Luther and the Stories of God: Biblical Narratives as a Foundation for Christian Living

“That love proceeds out of the trust that God gives in reestablishing the relationship between himself and his human creatures. Luther found a natural part of trusting in God to be in conversing with this God who created through his Word and proved himself to be a God of conversation and community. Thus Luther looked to patriarchs and prophets as models of hearing God’s Word, of repeating it to others, and of praying.”
― Robert Kolb, Luther and the Stories of God: Biblical Narratives as a Foundation for Christian Living