Quote of the Week- August Pieper

And now I tell the Synod in the name of God:  If we do not take an entirely new attitude toward our mission work, our work in the congregation, in the school, and in the home, as well as in the operation of the educational institutions for the training of pastors and teachers which God has placed into our hands, and apply ourselves to this task with greater zeal than heretofore, then our Church, and particularly our own Synod, is an unfaithful servant, who has failed to recognize the time of his visitation, and whose future lies not ahead but behind him.  My God!  Until now it was still true of us here in America what was said to the church at Philadelphia in Asia Minor, "Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." (Rev. 3:8)
(August Pieper, The True Reconstruction of the Church, p. 24)