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Luke Kjolhaug

Luke Kjolhaug

Lutheran pastor of Elim Lutheran Church in Osakis, Minnesota, and author of "Sinner Saint" and "Fear Not: How the Gospel Disrupts Our Deepest Anxieties" (1517 Publishing).

Sep 1, 2026

5:42
Hmm.
5:43
And in that article, obviously, I'm dealing with not a theory of the atonement, but a particular emphasis, way of understanding what Christ did on the cross and the significance of it within the Christus Victor framework.
5:59
In that, I shared a lot of kind of my own struggle with depression and anxiety and anxiety I partly located that in a substitutionary view, exclusively having a substitutionary view of the atonement, because where I had kind of landed with that is... at least the way I came, I came out of a framework that really, really emphasized substitutionary view.
6:29
And I, I, I understand like I'm on that side of the fence for sure.
6:33
And I understand why the biblical preponderance of the biblical evidence is on that side.
6:37
Right.
6:38
But there's also this Christmas Victor side that comes in and says, hold on.

7 MINS LATER

13:54
Yeah.

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