02-07-2007, 08:21 PM
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Dear friends, we may call the Word, sacraments, and prayer “ordinary” means, but by that we don’t mean common or boring. God gave us these things for the purpose of being transmitters of his grace to us, if we by faith will appropriate and use them! If we gave them up so that we might replace them with things that are “more exciting” or “more relevant,” what would that say about the “ordinary means?” It would say nothing at all about their power or their relevance, but it would say a great deal about our lack of confidence in God.
| An excellent pamphlet, but I especially appreciate the thoughts quoted above, with particular emphasis on how our actions say something in relation to the means of grace. In the faithful and humble use of the means of God's appointment we are testifying whose we are and whom we serve. May God grant the spirit of Ps. 131. Blessings!
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