“We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the
exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To
the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional
answer is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for
once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is
saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his
Son! Listen and believe!’”
Gerhard O. Forde, Justification by Faith (Philadelphia, 1983), page 22.
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