Luther on Worship

I was reading on worship and I came across this quote from Martin Luther on the nature of worship. Luther is making the point that worship doesn’t just happen in meeting places on Sunday mornings, but that all of life should be worship. Of course, he says it in the amusing way that only Luther would.

“The worship of God . . . should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all people, at all times. Whoever tells you anything else is lying as badly as the pope and the devil himself.” (What Luther Says, vol. III, ed. by Ewald M. Plass, [St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1959], p. 1546)

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