New Thing: Karl Barth Sermon
Inspiration: Barth's Feast Day
Time: A few well spend mins.
Bottom Line: Saved by Grace.
Reflection: Today is Karl Barth's proposed feast day. Since he is one of the most influential theologians in my life, I decided to read one of his sermons that I had yet to read. This sermon is titled “Saved by Grace” preached by Karl Barth to inmates of the prison at Basel, Switzerland on August 14, 1955. It can be found in its entirety here, and this is a beautiful selection:
But now listen. Into the depth of our predicament the word is spoken from on high: By grace you have been saved!
To be saved does not just mean to be a little encouraged, a little
comforted, a little relieved. It means to be pulled out like a log from
a burning fire. You have been saved! We are not told: you may be
saved sometimes, or a little bit. No, you have been saved,
totally for all times. You? Yes, we! Not just any other people, more
pious and better than we are, no we, each one of us.
This is so because Jesus Christ is our brother and, through his life
and death, has become our Saviour who has wrought our salvation. He is
the word of God for us. And this word is: By grace you have been saved!
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