ROUGHLY EDITED COPY LUTHERAN WORSHIP 2 74.LW2 Captioning provided By: Caption First, Inc. P.O. Box 1924 Lombard, IL 60148 ******** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ******** >> DAVID: How did Luther's Latin mass illustrate the principles of the Lutheran confessions? >> DR. JAMES BRAUER: That's a good question to ask after that summary of what he did. You can understand when he removed the sacrifice of the mass language what he's trying to get at is this justification by grace through faith has to be the object or the teaching that people are believing in. So the language of the liturgy that carried the false doctrine has to be stripped away to make this clear. And the proper response is not to what's going on there in the way of God's gifts in Jesus Christ. The proper thing to do is not your devotion in the pew by prayer acts while the priest is busy at the altar, but to listen to the now the text of the Latin or having been taught, even if you don't speak it, what's going on to meditate on those parts of the service. And the purpose then, becomes to provide to people the gifts of God that come through justification by faith and to lift up the fruits of faith, the thankful praise and prayer, even as he provides benefits, new ones, like a clear benediction from the Old Testament. So it's meant to make clear the gift-giving, to allow for a proper response, and not to mix in the false teachings, if you want to make it very simple. And it fits then with our definition in short the worship of the New Testament is spiritual. That is, it is the righteousness of faith in the heart and the fruits of faith. That is what God is seeking as this is happening, not that you're presenting good works to God hoping that this will assist in your salvation.