the neighborhood, school, club, and recreational center—as well as more overtly in the congregation of God’s people—such situations arise. When those around them ask questions—whether inquiring or challenging—which the living voice of the Gospel can meet, the spirit of Augsburg leads the heirs of Elector John and Landgrave Philip, of Luther, Bugenhagen, and Melanchthon, to point in appropriate form and detail to the Biblical message. Lutherans in the 16th century believed that God uses human language