6/26/2023 0 Comments What catechism![]() ![]() Catechetical instruction had always been the key component of Luther’s program of reform. The people and their pastors were woefully ignorant about the basics of the faith. They live like dumb brutes and irrational hogs… O bishops! What answer will you ever give to Christ for having so shamefully neglected the people and never for a moment fulfilled your office ?” ![]() And unfortunately, many pastors are completely unable and unqualified to teach… Yet, everyone says they are Christians, have been baptized, and receive the holy Sacraments, even though they cannot even recite the Lord’s Prayer or the Creed or the Ten Commandments. “The common person, especially in the villages, has no knowledge whatever of Christian doctrine. “Mercy! Dear God, what great misery I beheld!” Thus Luther writes in his Preface to The Small Catechism. In 1528, Luther and his colleagues visited the congregations in Saxony to assess their spiritual health. ![]()
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