The gospel itself has both the will and the power to create a hearing for itself in every language and people, and when that happens, it demonstrates the will and the power of the gospel and not its dependence upon anthropological concessions. The fundamental error is that the church in its mission is not subjecting itself to the Word of its Lord but rather it subjects his Word to intentions that it has established and is striving for, completely apart from his Word. Its error is that it does not carry out its task as service solely of the “Word and work of the Lord,” but that it uses the Word
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