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A translation of Walther’s famous treatise on church and ministry, Die Stimme unserer Kirche in der Frage von Kirche und Amt (3rd edition). This work explains the theological foundation for the congregation and pastoral office. Walther offers 10 theses, supported from Scripture, the church’s confessions, and patristic and confessional writers.

Thesis II The ministry of the Word or the pastoral office is not a human institution but an office that God Himself has established. 1. Scripture Proof The fact that the ministry of the Word or the ministry [Amt] of the New Testament is not a human institution or an ecclesiastical contrivance but a work of divine wisdom and an office established by God Himself is evident from the following: In the first place, from the predictions of the prophets that God Himself would give to the church of the New
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