Luther: As the Doctrine, so the Church (Der Lutheraner, 1846)

      A short blurb in Der Lutheraner quoted Luther at his best – summarizing Christianity and what it is based on.  From vol. 2, (May 30, 1846) p. 80, translation by DeepL (see also Pastor Baseley's version here):

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As is the Doctrine, so is the Church. 

It is so ordered that in the church of God there is no master, for he says, Matt. 23:8: “One is your Master, even Christ.” And in Psalm 60:8 [Luther's Bibel; or KJV Ps. 60:6] it says: “God speaks in His sanctuary,” i.e. in His church. But where man, or Satan, the devil, speaks, there is no doubt that the devil's synagogue and congregation are there. For as the Word is, so is the people, so is God, so is worship, so is faith, so is conscience, so are works, and all things with one another; so are all things done in man by the Word alone. — Luther on Ps. 8:3.

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      There is a lot of speaking by man (i.e. by Satan) in the church today, not by God and His Word. And so we see whose "church" it actually is.