Monday, February 01, 2010

Barth on Monday

The New Testament has left no doubt as to the fact that there is only one Lord and that this Lord is the Lord of the world, Jesus Christ. This is what the community has to preach to the world...

[The] community of Jesus Christ is not a reality which exists for its own sake; it exists because it has a commission. What it knows it has to tell the world. 'Let your light shine before men.'

By doing this, by being just as it was from the beginning, the unique, living advertisement over against the world, the advertisement of the existence of the Lord, it thus raises no false claim for itself, for its faith and its knowledge. No, Jesus Christ is the Lord.

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