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The answer is that Lutherans worship only God in Jesus Christ.
“In Moltmann’s understanding, diakonia is following Jesus, the Crucified, and in the horizon of the inbreaking Kingdom of God. Both references are fundamental in order to understand diakonia in its holistic meaning. To follow Jesus implies walking as he did, embracing the poor and the sick, and bringing them healing, salvation, hope and a future, as announced in his ‘manifesto’ in Luke 4:18-19. In”
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
“Although the diakonia of Jesus is unique, only he is the Saviour of the world, the diakonia of the church is performed ‘in Christ’, empowered by the gifts of his diaconal presence in the church. But Christ’s presence in the world cannot be limited to the church. As the deacon of the world, Christ is present where people suffer and are victims of injustice and poverty, although hidden, as told in Matthew 25:31-46.”
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
“Do we hope for the realisation of God’s Kingdom that in the presence and the spirit of Jesus already seizes, liberates and prepares for service? Or do we wait for the end of this world of unavoidable suffering and basically hopeless work as its overcoming?”
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
“In Wendland’s concept, the arena of diaconal engagement is in the world, promoting freedom, equality and human dignity.”
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
“it nevertheless builds on a vision of the cosmological diaconate of Jesus, in the sense that his ministry as Servant and Lord has changed the course of the history of the world. Wendland holds together the concepts of διακονος and δουλος (slave), giving especial attention to the Christological hymn in Philippians 2:5-11 where Jesus is announced as the slave who was “obedient to death – even death on a cross” and thereby became the Saviour of the world.”
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
― Diakonia as Christian Social Practice: An Introduction
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