“Holy Orders and Positions” – Vocation

I’m going to focus on today’s reading from Matthew 25:14-30 and the topic of vocation, but I’ll get there in a round-about way.

First, though, I want to talk about the Lutheran Catechism, and I promise that it’ll lead us back to the Gospel.

Now, the Bible is our sole source of theology, since it is God’s Word.  Then, as Lutherans we use the Catechism as a guide to expressing this theology in an easy to understand way.  This is because the Catechism isn’t so much a dictionary of theological te...