25 Minutes in The Lutheran Confessions
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min · 1 segments
25 Minutes in the Lutheran Confessions works its way through the Lutheran Confessions 25 minutes at a time. Join your hosts Dr. Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price, and Caleb Keith to explore what…
I think that one of the things that the confessions do, and particularly in the Lutheran confessions, and one of the reasons I like them so much, is actually because I believe that the only thing that in the end matters is where your trust is.
And I think these confessions help keep that trust in that one thing that matters.
Well, look at just even the, I mean, I know it's the article on justification, but how many times it says in one paragraph, "For Christ's sake.
Yeah.
It's the central theme in the Lutheran confession.
At the end of the day, what you're trying to do is say, "Yeah, I mean, look, man, faith in Christ, that's the whole game, but you gotta live this whole life." And I do think that having a confession like this helps that faith stay right there because the devil's main game is to try to get you to put that faith anywhere else, right? I mean, anywhere else.
The purpose of many of the doctrines in the Lutheran confessions that don't seem just at first glance like they're connected to that kernel of salvation, one of the reasons they do this all the time is because specifically Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon were very worried that these sort of other doctrines that the church was getting wrong would eventually undermine your trust in Christ alone.
Now, it didn't necessarily for every person do that, but the teaching in the church universal of these wrong doctrines would over time and have the tendency to and consistently undermine personal trust in Christ as your Lord and Savior.
And in their minds, that would then just lead to a terrified conscience that was never consoled by the true teaching on justification by faith.
I think that one of the things that the confessions do, and particularly in the Lutheran confessions, and one of the reasons I like them so much, is actually because I believe that the only thing that in the end matters is where your trust is.
And I think these confessions help keep that trust in that one thing that matters.
Well, look at just even the, I mean, I know it's the article on justification, but how many times it says in one paragraph, "For Christ's sake.
Yeah.
It's the central theme in the Lutheran confession.
At the end of the day, what you're trying to do is say, "Yeah, I mean, look, man, faith in Christ, that's the whole game, but you gotta live this whole life." And I do think that having a confession like this helps that faith stay right there because the devil's main game is to try to get you to put that faith anywhere else, right? I mean, anywhere else.
The purpose of many of the doctrines in the Lutheran confessions that don't seem just at first glance like they're connected to that kernel of salvation, one of the reasons they do this all the time is because specifically Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon were very worried that these sort of other doctrines that the church was getting wrong would eventually undermine your trust in Christ alone.
Now, it didn't necessarily for every person do that, but the teaching in the church universal of these wrong doctrines would over time and have the tendency to and consistently undermine personal trust in Christ as your Lord and Savior.
And in their minds, that would then just lead to a terrified conscience that was never consoled by the true teaching on justification by faith.
