The Gospel in the Divine Liturgy, Part 1 – Dr. John Bombaro,1/23/25 (0232)
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Dr. John Bombaro of St. James Lutheran-Lafayette, IN Gospel Safebox
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| 0:24.4 | Help us inform other podcast listeners by subscribing to the Issues et cetera podcast with YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. Why did the 16th century reformers, Martin Luther among them, |
| 0:47.5 | why did they retain in their worship practices almost all of what is called the Western Right, the Divine Service or the |
| 0:57.4 | historic liturgy. |
| 0:58.5 | There are a few things they got rid of, things that were contrary to the gospel, but they |
| 1:02.8 | kept everything else. |
| 1:04.4 | And why did they, in their writings, in particular, in the Book of Concord, kind of brag about the fact that they celebrated the mass |
| 1:13.2 | as they called it with greater reverence than their opponents, the Roman Catholics, and they |
| 1:18.4 | observed it more faithfully. They said even religiously observed it. Welcome back to issues, |
| 1:24.7 | etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about the gospel in the divine |
| 1:28.4 | liturgy, Dr. John Bumbarrow, senior pastor of St. James Lutheran Church in Lafayette, Indiana, |
| 1:34.6 | author of a column titled Gospel Safebox. John, welcome back. Thanks, Todd. It's nice to be with you. |
| 1:41.3 | What do Lutherans usually mean by this phrase word and sacrament? |
| 1:46.7 | It's an important phrase because it encapsulates what duly called and ordained |
| 1:51.3 | ministers of the gospel are required to do, and that is the administration of the written |
| 1:57.9 | and spoken word of the Holy Gospel, indeed all of scriptures, along with our Lord Jesus Christ's sacraments, which are purpose by Christ to make and form disciples through the same. |
| 2:11.2 | Sometimes they fall under the auspices of being called the means of grace. |
| 2:16.3 | I think that sometimes we can even just drop out the terminology means of they are the means of grace. I think that sometimes we can even just drop out the terminology |
| 2:19.5 | means of they are the grace of God. This is how God gives his grace or speaking more in categories |
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