The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession 25 June 2008 Rev. Philip Zielinski Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne, Indiana   Grace, mercy, and peace be yours, from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. It is a rare thing in this day and age that a certain date or time should retain much importance for very long. Ask your son or daughter about December 7th . . . or any 7 year old about September 11th. 478 years ago, a group of pastors, princes, mayors, city councilmen, and other lay people, stood before the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and articulated the points of the faith about which there had arisen dispute after that pesky monk went and vandalized a church door. The Augsburg Confession remains, even yet today, a vital, and, vibrant document, that we, and all the faithful, should be proud to hold high, and confess to be true. Why? Because a bunch of really smart guys wrote it all down and some really important guys signed it? No, certainly not. For our faith is not founded upon the musings of men or angels, but ...