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Happy Reformation Day
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Happy Reformation Day
Luther has written many works that are great for us to continue to read and study. In memory of Luther I leave you with this quote from the Bondage of the Will:
"I frankly confess that for myself, even if it could be, I should not want free-will to be given me, nor anything to be left in my own hands to enable me to endeavor after salvation; not merely because in the face of so many dangers, and adversities, and assaults of devils, I could not stand my ground and hold fast my 'free-will'... but because, even where there are no dangers, adversities, or devils, I should still be forced to labour with no guarantee of success, and to beat my fists at the air. If I lived and worked to all eternity, my conscience would never reach comfortable certainty as to how much it must do to satisfy God. Whatever work I had done, there would still be a nagging doubt as to whether it pleased God, or whether He required something more. The experience of all who seek righteousness by works proves that; and I learned it well enough myself over a period of many years, to my own great hurt. But now that God has taken my salvation out of the control of my own will, and put it under the control of His, and promised to save me, not according to my working or running, but according to His own grace and mercy, I have the comfortable certainty that He is faithful and will not live or opposition can break Him or pluck Him from me."
Our church is going to join Zion URC in Ripon, CA for a joint time of fellowship. We would love to have anyone join us for that time.
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