Affirmation of Baptism Do you intend To live

Affirmation of Baptism: Do you intend… • To live among God’s faithful people, • To hear the word and share in the Lord’s supper, • To proclaim the Good News through word and deed, • To serve all peoples, following Jesus’ example, • To strive for justice and peace in all the earth? “I do and I ask God to help and guide

ST. AUGUSTINE • "SINCE YOU CANNOT DO GOOD TO ALL, YOU ARE TO PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THOSE WHO, BY ACCIDENTS OF TIME, OR PLACE, OR CIRCUMSTANCE, ARE BROUGHT INTO CLOSER CONNECTION WITH YOU. "

LUTHER: GRACE & SERVICE A THEOLOGIAN WITHOUT WALLS

Why start with Luther?

“Martin Luther took a stand that literally shredded the fabric of Europe. It changed theology, politics, society and political boundaries. It gave us a revolution in education and literacy. ”

Luther was all about access. • Bread and Wine in the Eucharist • Bible in common German rather than Latin • Small Catechism for families • Large Catechism for Pastors • Education for all boys and girls • Common Chest to distribute wealth

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul Luther’s Baptism Church Eisleben

“A Christian is a perfectly free Lord of all, subject to none. ” “A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all. ”

Indulgence Chest

The Common Purse Late in 1520 • Wittenberg Town Council • Luther’s Insistence • Collected at the Town Church for poor • Food, wood, grain

Wittenberg Order of 1522 “The Common Chest” • 4 stewards elected to manage it • Criterion for distribution of loans or gifts was need! • Doctor Fendt paid to provide medical care to poor • First ever in Europe

“He who has nothing to live should be aided. If he deceives us, what then? He must be aided again. ” Martin Luther (LW 30 - 278)

“For so to help a man that he does not need to become a beggar is just as much of a good work and a virtue as to give alms to a man who has already become a beggar. ” Martin Luther (LW 13 - 54)

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Lucas Cranach, artist of the Reformation Wittenberg

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. ” Brazilian Archbishop Dom Camara

LUTHERAN ARTICLE ON SHALOM DIANE JACOBSON • 2012 NATIONAL YOUTH GATHERING, NEW ORLEANS • SHALOM ALWAYS IS RELATIONAL • SHALOM IS MARRIED TO JUSTICE! • “GO IN PEACE AND SERVE THE LORD…HOW?

SEEK JUSTICE! • ISAIAH. 1: 11 -17 • JEREMIAH. 7: 1 -26 • HOSEA 6: 4 -6; 8: 11 -13 • AMOS 5: 21 -25 • MICAH 6: 8 • MALACHI 3: 5

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PUBLICALLY ENGAGED CHURCH

In its very first social statement, “The Church in Society: A Lutheran Perspective, ” from 1991, our church committed to “work with and on behalf of the poor, the powerless and those who suffer, using its power and influence with political and economic decision-making bodies to develop and advocate policies that seek to advance justice, peace and the care of creation. ”

“What will you do rather than doing nothing? ”