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Luther identifies a specific abuse of gospel freedom: concluding grace means living as one pleases, then worshipping Mammon, accumulating ruthlessly, extracting wealth from land and people. Conservative Christians vigorously oppose gospel license in certain areas. Covetousness and extraction feature less prominently in those warnings. Luther did not make that distinction.
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Baugher reads Luke 16 with irritation: the rich man, condemned to hell, still tries ordering Lazarus about, as though nothing changed but his location. His heart stayed the same—still despising Moses. Today that charge gets redirected at those who suggest the rich should behave differently. The original target evades it entirely.
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Luther on 1 Peter 1:22: why live a chaste and holy life? Not to earn salvation—to be useful to your neighbor. A pure life makes one more useful; it’s harder to be useful when consumed by messing around. The love here is usefulness to the neighbor, ideally recognized as such by them. Not scolding them about their unchastity and calling that love. Luther would have noticed the difference.
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Luther observes that the communicants filing to the Lord’s Supper on Sunday are, by Monday, scraping, grabbing, and scratching across every level of society. He finds this a sin and a shame. Today we’ve tidied this up considerably: one may join a party that deplores poor scratchers, or one that deplores rich grabbers, and in either case feel entirely absolved. Luther, characteristically, was not offering that option.
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Jacobs—Lutheran, Pennsylvania, 1897—worries his church lacks resources for its mission. Note who he expects it to serve: needy immigrants and people scarcely recovered from servitude. Two observations: he considers slavery’s effects still present thirty years after abolition—modern conservatism dates that conversation’s expiry to 1865. And he wants to build churches for immigrants. Current religiosity has rather different priorities.
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Herman Olshausen, a German Lutheran commentator, says the Good Samaritan shows love that isn’t managed or negotiated. It rises from the heart and acts, even when prudence, custom, or blame would advise restraint. Real love crosses boundaries and helps enemies . So what has trained us to hesitate—and how might we relearn to love freely?
Morris Officer, founder of the first Lutheran mission in Liberia, looked squarely at the slave trade and could bear it no longer. He prayed that every trace of that cruel traffic would be washed away. His response wasn’t theory, but repentance and hope. What injustices do we dare to pray would be cleansed from our own world—and our own hearts?
Martin Luther, explaining Matthew 5, presses Christ’s words to their limit: if devotion interferes with love of neighbor, devotion must wait. Luther even says God would rather see no church built than a neighbor neglected. The obstacle to worship, he suggests, may be the grievance our neglect creates. How will you seek reconciliation where duty and devotion collide?
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Luther says a Christian doesn’t curl up like a house cat and call it faith. You stretch. By faith, you reach up into God like a tree grabbing sunlight; by love, you reach down into your neighbour like roots in everyone’s garden. If you’re only growing upward, you’re basically a very holy stick.
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David Chytraeus, the Lutheran theologian, reads 1 John with unnerving clarity: to refuse love is already a kind of death. Christ’s self-giving redefines what life looks like, and when we seal our hearts against need, we quietly deny that love lives in us at all. Love, then, must become concrete—truth taking flesh in action.
How can you show love?
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Luther says “all things are possible”, but this doesn’t mean superpowers, it means you won’t disintegrate if you give things away. Belief makes generosity survivable. Once you realise what you have is gift, not trophy, pride calms down.
Awkwardly, that power is for your neighbour. So… what are you actually willing to put on the table?
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Anti-Trans Lutheran Thinks Personal Pronouns are a “Sinful Delusion”
For my own sake, I do my best to avoid the LCMS entirely, but sometimes the world likes to tempt
https://sheseeksnonfiction.blog/2023/07/30/anti-trans-lutheran-thinks-personal-pronouns-are-a-sinful-delusion/
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