Wednesday, June 17, 2009

More Luther...

Surprisingly it has been nice learning a bit more about Martin Luther. Despite the fact that he was deeply in favor of killing those radical anabaptists, the did have some good thoughts.

He did care about doing good, "works" but his thinking was that good works were not even possible without the grace of God. We often criticize Luther for relying so much on grace that his followers did not have to pursue discipleship. Not true. We should never pass judgment without really getting to know people.

1 comment:

sheckler said...

Pretty sure we shouldn't be judging at all as we haven't walked in someone elses shoes and don't know what they've experienced.
That said, it seems we make judgments about others all the time, and those judgments influence our decisions.