Our Church does not burn heretics or judge consciences. But it does concern itself about true doctrine and must concern itself about it.
“What is Lutheranism without the actual incarnation, without the miracles that belong to the enfleshed God-man, without the real presence of the body and blood of Christ, without the washing of regeneration? There is no Lutheranism save that which is “orthodox.” Anything else may be a beautiful, congenial humanitarianism and Christianity, but it is not Lutheranism. That must be kept in mind, even when one is, with an all-embracing love, gathering those who adhere to the Church of the Augsburg Confession.
Our Church does not burn heretics or judge consciences. But it does concern itself about true doctrine and must concern itself about it.
A Lutheran Church that would not do that, a Church that would not train and guide its pastors to this end, a Church that no longer shields its members against false doctrine is no longer a Lutheran Church. “
Hermann Sasse, Letters to Lutheran Pastors, vol…
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