1 March 2024
We cannot learn what the church is from theological books. Nor can we
learn this only from sermons, even though it should continually be said to us
in sermons and we should hear it there. Rather, faith in the church—that is,
believing knowledge of what the church is according to her deepest
essence—arises from our experiences at the celebration of the Supper. This was
the place where the disciples understood the reality of the church for the
first time. The nascent church awoke to self-awareness in the celebration of
the “breaking of bread,” the “Eucharist.”
Hermann Sasse
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