Jimmy Dunn, wrote so eloquently about this Lutheran discovery: The insight granted to Luther has remained at the heart of Protestant Christian thought. ‘Justification by faith’ is a sharp sword which punctures all inflated thoughts of self-importance. It is a sharp knife which cuts away all reliance on human effort, on human cleverness. It is a sharp spade which undermines any attempt to build our own protective barriers or control our own destiny. It cuts through all human pretence, all human self-assurance, all human boasting. God accepts not the important, or the activist, or the clever, or
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