Pastors have authority.



Over and more than some politicians and twitter guys.

A Lutheran DEFENSE of Sola Scriptura: Johann Gerhard (w/ Dr. Steve Parks)

https://youtu.be/DYmHyuhhv58?si=qb9i0yLeaB1D9qTK

Jared from Scholastic Lutherans on YouTube:

AVE CHRISTUS REX

“[B]y transgressing [the Father’s] commandment we became His enemies. And therefore in the last times the Lord has restored us into friendship through His incarnation, having become ‘the Mediator between God and men;’ propitiating indeed for us the Father against whom we had sinned, and cancelling our disobedience by His own obedience;” - St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies (5.17.1)

“Human beings can be saved from the ancient wound of the serpent in no other way than by believing in him who, when he was raised up from the earth on the tree of martyrdom in the likeness of sinful flesh, drew all things to himself and gave life to the dead.” - St. Irenaeus (Against the Heresies, BK. IV, 2, 7)

“For instead of the Jerusalem below we have received that mother city which is above; and instead of a material temple have seen a spiritual temple; instead of tables of stone, fleshy ones; instead of circumcision, baptism; instead of the manna, the Lord's body; instead of water from a rock, blood from His side; instead of Moses' or Aaron's rod, the Cross; instead of the promised [land], the kingdom of heaven; instead of a thousand priests, One High Priest; instead of a lamb without reason, a Spiritual Lamb”

- St. John Chrysostom

“He does not say: If you believe or are worthy, you receive My body and blood, but: Take, eat and drink; this is My body and blood.” - St. Martin Luther (Large Catechism, Sacra. Alter 17)

Insofar as I am a saint, I am a son of God, insofar as I am a sinner, I am a slave to Christ.