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Martin Luther read and preached the biblical text as the record of God addressing real, flesh-and-blood people in their daily lives. He used stories of the faithful as depicted in biblical narratives to drive home his vision of the Christian life, a life that includes struggling against temptation, enduring suffering, praising God in worship and prayer, and serving one’s neighbor in response to...

of the gospel that creates or restores new life in Christ, while admonition applies both consolation and instruction to daily Christian living. Eberhard Winkler describes how Luther practiced both proclamation and pastoral care in view of these parallel biblical claims: “The decisive priority of God’s action in no way excludes the appeal to human insight. The pastoral comfort [that stems from God’s commitment to love his people] therefore … points to a component that sets [human] activity in motion.”47
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