of supererogation is a work above and beyond the call of duty and earns for the believer extra merit. One example in the lives of saints is martyrdom. It was these ideas that resulted in the worst fracture of the historic Christian church. The furious debate was and is at two crucial points. The first is the ongoing debate over merit and grace. The second focuses on the question of the sufficiency of the merit of Christ. Luther’s “justification by faith alone” was a battle cry for the sufficiency