Hello, and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.

My name is Caleb, and I am joined by my father, Dr. Scott Keith.

As we walk through the Augsburg Confession and the apology of the Augsburg Confession today,

we will be beginning with Article 7.

Last episode, we did basically justification in addition to article five and six on the preaching

office and on the new obedience those articles are lumped together into article four in the

apology so in augsburg there are three separate articles. In the apology, they're all found

under the one on justification. Part of that has to do with the way that the confutation addresses

what they see as the evangelical error in justification and the new obedience, and then also

how justification is obtained, the preaching office. So then Melankham responds sort of as a unit with those in the apology,

because really they do address sort of the error of, you know,

Roman or papist justification is wrapped up in sort of how faith is obtained

and how faith sort of is finalized in works.

And so the evangelicals do respond to one large article there.

And now Article 7 today concerning the church, we were just talking before the show.

Now we're in a setup and we had a race to justification.

Now maybe we could call it a race to the means of grace.

I don't know.

Yeah, you could say more justification by faith through the means of grace.

That's probably a little long for an episode title.

But basically, the way I've always argued this is that you run to justification in the

Augsburg Confession and then you're sort of walking backwards, always looking at justification

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