The Gospel is for Sinners

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Pastors are rotten people. There's no two ways about it. You might think that your pastor, or the pastors you have admired in the past, are good people. You might think that they are holy men, honest and good and diligent servants of the Lord. But you would be wrong. Pastors are lousy people. Poor, miserable, sinners – the whole lot of them.

On the outside, it seems like pastors are good people. But on the inside they can be as filthy as a sealed tomb. Pastors are blasphemers, taking the Word of God and using it to their own advantage, twisting it to say what they want. They are persecutors, using their influence and control to achieve their own desires, rather than the will of the Lord. The are ignorant, whether it be of church history or the Scriptures, or of the Lutheran Confessions, or whether they are ignorant and uncaring regarding the customs of the parish.