The Word did everything

Filed Under Bible, Holy Spirit, The Church

A gem from Martin Luther appeared yesterday on the excellent blog The Shepherd’s Scrapbook.

“I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God’s Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philipp and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.”

There is great irony here, as I sit in my study to finish some necessary, albeit unfinished, tasks on my day off. And it gives me some ideas for the rest of the day…

Signature Phillip