Quote: Luther on People calling themselves "Lutheran"

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"The first thing I ask that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. nor was I crucified for anyone . . . How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the Children of Christ by my evil name?"

Theology of the Reformers, Timothy George, pg. 53.

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