Concerning Christian Liberty

So much deep spiritual insight! Really helped identify the self-righteousness and legalism in me and begin to understand True Freedom in Christ!

This was just a wonderful text to read, I have been trying to share with others that once we truly understand the teaching of justification, we are more able to look always outside of ourselves! As it is right now, we so quickly go to, “I must be good to get salvation” when it couldn’t be further from the truth. We must understand that we are saved for Christs sake and His alone!

We have strayed so far from the simple teaching of salvation by faith alone in this day and age, into the belief that in order to be right with God we somehow need to get on board with the next “latest and greatest” Bible reading program, prayer method, or tithing practice in order to have a right standing with God. In this treatise, Luther hammers home the simple truth that our Christian disciplines cannot save us, but rather that believing, by “faith alone” in Jesus’ power to save us from our sinfulness, is powerful enough not only to justify us before God, but also fill us with a desire to serve others that will naturally produce good works in us over time. If any generation ever needed to hear this message, it is ours, more than any other.