Your invitation to eat the bread has nothing to do with your worthiness; it has everything to do with the abundance of what has been provided for us in Jesus Christ.
From Martin Luther:
Lord, you have placed me in your church as an overseer and pastor. You see how unfit I am to administer this great and difficult office. Had I previously been
Kevin DeYoung on The Gospel Old and New: “The New Gospel will not sustain the church. It cannot change the heart. And it does not save. It is crucial, therefore, that our evangelical
I suspected I would enjoy Calvin’s Institutes, and I shouldn’t even be surprised by how things really haven’t changed even though we live in very different times. Take this section