Fantastic insight
When
Lutherans slip from being Lutherans, they slip back into what they were
just before, that is, Augustinians - sanctification in the way of the
Law. There are always two ways of going wrong, each way of going wrong
and its opposite. To do no more than contradict what is wrong is to make
the same error in reverse. Thus, "it is all works and faith has nothing
to do with it" is contradicted by "it is all faith and works have
nothing to do with it." Neither James nor Paul say either of these. Nor
do they do fractions to a compromise: part faith, part works. No. It is
all Jesus.
-- Dr. Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, p. 218.
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