1. God gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.
  2. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  3. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  4. Repentance is meaningless unless we are willing to acknowledge who we are: sinners needing mercy.
  5. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.

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