Heard at the assembly

“Now Epsicopalians aren’t very good at giving testimony—we pray out of a book, after all. This is something I’ve come to understand and appreciate. So I’ll briefly give you my own testimony of how I also came to understand how I was saved through faith alone. ... It was through an intermediary, but probably through an intermediary not so glorious as John Wesley, not so glorious as the Aldersgate meetinghouse. I speak of two prominent Lutheran theologians who spoke to many in my ... Generation X. I speak, of course, to the great Lutheran theologians, Davey and Goliath.Who taught me? The great theologian and his apologist, the Lutheran (Phillip) Melancthon of my generation, truly taught me that I was saved through faith alone, and that works could not earn me God’s love ....”