wittenberg—god’s living word explodes

If you begin to read Luther’s vast writings on Bible interpretation—he translated the entire Bible—and if you begin to read some of his 3,000 sermons and his 3,000 letters, you will begin to see his repeated use of Bible verses where God Himself refers to His living, creating, re-creating, cleansing, and healing Word, God’s own efficacious Word.

To see what resulted when living-Word-based lectures were delivered by Luther and his faculty coworkers at Wittenberg, click here (Schwiebert, E.G. Luther and His Times: The Reformation from a New Perspective. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1950, pp. 3-4).

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