Frederick Dale Bruner
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“Luther and Calvin believed that both the Roman church on the right and the Zwinglian and Anabaptist churches on the left made the Lord's Supper too much a place WHERE BELIEVERS DID THINGS FOR GOD - either by offering Christ to God (Rome) or by offering their deep devotion to God (the Radical Protestants). The main direction of the Supper, in both of these views, was up.”
― Matthew: The Churchbook Matthew 13-28
― Matthew: The Churchbook Matthew 13-28
“The abundance of the gifts of the Spirit . . . does not mean that the believer will be transferred from a struggling faith to a purely triumphant faith but that the believer will become a participant, by the Spirit, in the glorification of Christ,” a glorification, we recall, that entails a Cross.”
― The Gospel of John: A Commentary
― The Gospel of John: A Commentary
“Luther put it this way in a memorable passage, LW 23:28: “We might compare this to two persons who possess a hundred guldens [gold coins]. The one may carry them in a paper sack, the other may keep them in an iron chest. But for all that, both possess the entire treasure. Thus the Christ whom you and I own is one and the same, regardless of the strength or the weakness of your faith or of mine. In Him we possess all, whether we hold Him with a strong faith or a weak faith. The entire service of God is contained in this: Believe in Christ, whom the Father has sent to you. Accept His pronouncements. You can offer God nothing more pleasing to Him in heaven or on earth.”
― The Gospel of John: A Commentary
― The Gospel of John: A Commentary
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