LUTHER ON THE BIBLE
“Even if I (Luther) were to lose my body and my life on account of it, I cannot depart from the true Word of God.” It was the preaching of the divine Word, not political intrigue or the power of the sword, which established the Reformation in Germany. Luther put it later, “I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. And when, while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my Philip and my Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that never a Prince nor Emperor inflicted such damage upon it. I did nothing. The Word did it all.” Ernest Gordon Rupp, Luther’s Progress to the Diet of Worms 1521, cited by John R.W. Stott, Between Two Worlds, The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century, p. 25
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