Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.

My name is Caleb, and today I'm joined by my father, Dr. Scott Keith, and by Dr. Rod Rosenblot.

Last week I said this was going to be our last episode of the small catechism, and I was wrong.

I forgot about the Christian questions and answers.

And though we have stated here that this is a later edition, written

by Luther, but a later edition, you know, it occurred to me, this is in everybody's small

catechism that they have, and so we should do this. This is already going to be there,

and they're good questions and they're good answers. So there's no, there's no harm in, uh, in doing this at all. So, um, it's interestingly described as, um,

a, a set of questions and answers for those who are intending to go to, uh, the sacrament

of the altar or receive the Lord's

supper. That makes its placement at the back of the book here as an addition interesting

because we have an earlier section on the Lord's Supper with a question about who is worthy

to receive it.

And so,

but now these questions and answers actually go in after sort of the very simple answer he gives,

which is to those who have faith and promises of Christ,

that we now have here,

and here's the preparation.

Here's what it does. here's what's given here's

who is who it's who it's for and it actually helps uh i don't know explain some of the earlier

parts in the catechism too i think um you know and if people have this in their catechisms that they're reading from

as they follow along, they'll, I'm sure, see the note that this is added in 1551, which is

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