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About Luther Academy
In the Smalcald Articles, Martin Luther says, “…thank God, even a seven
year old child knows what the church is, namely, holy believers and sheep who hear the
voice of their Shepherd.”
The Luther Academy exists out of love for the Church and to serve the
Church. It is our goal in everything we do to help the Shepherd’s sheep hear, as clearly
as possible, the voice of Him who alone brings hope to the fallen world in which we live.
How do we accomplish this task? Once again Luther gives us direction, this time in
his Large Catechism. “He (God) has a peculiar congregation in the world, which is
the mother that begets and bears every Christian through the Word of God, which He
reveals and preaches, (and through which) He illumines and enkindles hearts, that
they understand, accept it, cling to it and persevere in it.”
The Luther Academy wants the church to hear the voice of her Shepherd
and since His voice is heard wherever God’s Word is proclaimed, we have
made it our task to declare that Word in its purity and truth as clearly
and as frequently as we can. Today, as many focus on the issue of
“church growth” the Luther Academy continues to focus on the only means
of church growth recognized by the Holy Scriptures – the means of grace.
Thus we do not occupy ourselves with questions such as:
• What are the felt needs of the people?
• What do current cultural trends indicate that people want in their
worship?
• How does the church make itself attractive to a postmodern culture?
No, as Lutherans who believe that God effects the growth of the church
only through
His holy Gospel, we ask different questions:
• How do we help the church to proclaim the Word faithfully in Lutheran
congregations?
• How do we help the church reach those who do not have or understand
the Gospel?
• How do we keep pure the proclamation of that Word which alone can give
life?
We believe that the Lutheran Confession is a faithful Confession of the
truth of God’s Holy Word and is the clear and truthful expression of
God’s revelation revealed in the
Scriptures. We therefore make it our objective –because we love the
church – to share this Lutheran Confession with as many as possible. We
carry out this objective through the publication of our Confessional
Lutheran Dogmatics, our theological journal Logia, numerous conferences and in various other ways.
We are convinced that the primary battles we must fight as members of
the church militant are doctrinal. And we believe that precisely because
these battles are doctrinal they are extremely important to the life and
existence of the church because the church lives and grows only from the
Word of God. Therefore, in all of our endeavors we give attention to the
doctrine of the church as we hope and pray that we can act as a reliable
compass to point people to that which is truly Lutheran and therefore
truly evangelical and truly Christian.
i. The Book of Concord, Theodore Tappert, ed., (Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1959, p. 315.
ii . Tappert, p. 416.
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