This passage comes from the end of the formula of Concord.

By God's grace, with intrepid hearts, we are willing to appear before the judgment seat of Christ with this confession and give an account of it.

We will not speak or write anything contrary to this confession, either publicly or privately.

By the strength of God, we intend to abide by it.

Dr. John Bruss, president of Concordia

Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, talking about his presentation at the 2025 issues,

etc., making the case conference. That's the confessional attitude. Utter confidence before the

judgment seat of God, confidence in Christ, who has bought us from sin, death, and devil,

and confidence that our faith is properly rooted in God's inerrant word.

You can meet and hear Dr. John Bruss making the case for the Lutheran Confessions

at this year's Making the Case Conference.

The premier conference for Christian Laity is Friday, July 18th and Saturday, July 19th at Concordia

University of Chicago. Learn more at SUZTC.org.

We often speak about the 16th century reformation as though it were one big event, kind of organized, it had a beginning, middle, and an end, or that it was one event period. And this isn't true, not

theologically and not historically. The Reformation was a series of events, some of them

running in parallel, some of them running very different directions, all moving away

from Rome, but what made the Lutheran Reformation different?

Welcome back to Issues, etc., coming to you live from the studios of Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, Illinois.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

Thanks for tuning us in.

Joining us to talk about the uniqueness of the Lutheran Reformation, Dr. Jordan Cooper,

executive director of Justin Sinner, professor of systematicology at American Lutheran Theological Seminary.

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