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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.

of God are sanctified. For it is the sanctifying washing of the new birth by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5), in which we are cleansed and washed by the Holy Spirit from sin and death as in the pure, holy blood of the Lamb of God. Where you see this mark, there, be assured, must certainly be the church or the Christian holy people. “Third, God’s people, or the Christian holy people, are recognized by the holy Sacrament of the Altar wherever it is administered, believed, and received according to Christ’s
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