When Politics Predominates

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Among the many great insights of C. F. W. Walther’s The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel is his counsel to preachers that the gospel must predominate in every sermon. Scripture is the manger that holds Christ. We can’t forget to preach the law because it’s the thing that leads us to him. The law’s work of judgment and condemnation hands us over to the Christ, who saves us from sin and death. The work of the law is not the last and final thing but is always penultimate – awaiting its end and fulfillment in the gospel.

Politics is provisional. It belongs in the old world in which sin, death, and the devil reign.

The gospel must predominate because it is the destination, endpoint, and conclusion of the story of Scripture.