Transforming Church

Martin Luther's Mission Theology

For those struggling to understand how transformation is consistent with traditional Lutheran practice, Dave Daubert, the ELCA Executive for Renewal of Congregations, has drawn from Martin Luther's writing a clear understanding of Luther's call for mission. Find his article in a Word document here:
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Quoting Daubert, "Luther's agenda to reform the church assumed that a high percentage of those officially connected and institutionally churched people in his time were functionally non-Christian. The object of his reforms was to transform the institutional church in order that people might be confronted by the true gospel of Jesus Christ and come to believe in a God of mercy and unconditional forgiveness that few in Luther's time had ever encountered."