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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

And I'm still, whoa.

On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing the Magdeburg Confession.

This is a document that was written in 1550 during a conflict between the Holy Roman Empire and a Lutheran city state,

basically just a city, wasn't even a city state. The reason that we are visiting a five-century

old document is because there is some applicability to the arguments that were made to our

lives today, to current political conflicts.

It's something that comes up periodically. The government's doing something bad. What do we do?

And so before we get into the meat of the Magdeburg Confession, which was the beginning of what

you probably are familiar with, the lesser magistrate doctrine. That is something

that basically originated at this point and then was evolved over the next few decades into what

became known as the lesser magistrate doctrine. Before we get into, I want to make sure that people

don't get the wrong impression of us going back and talking about an old document.

You might notice that it's actually pretty rare that Stonequire episodes do something like this.

We don't do a lot of history. We don't do a lot of rehashing of old arguments.

And it's not that we're novelty seeking. For one, you can generally find good coverage, good basic stuff, other places.

Yeah, we did the baptism and communion episodes because a bunch of people asked for it.

We want you to be Lutheran, but this podcast doesn't exist to bully anyone to being Lutheran.

People ask, why are you guys different with the sacraments?

So we gave the Lutheran case, and we think the scriptural case for those things.

But for the most part, we don't touch on things that are pretty well settled.

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