your sins and puts all his righteousness on you. The effect is to free you for a new life that is very much in the old world but not of it, a life that is like salt to preserve and provide taste to the creation and that, like leaven, fattens the whole loaf. Luther’s insight was shockingly simple, as great ideas always are: God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does. That realization opened for Luther a new relationship that refused to make either creation or the law the means of salvation