The Gospel Is Public

"When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next."
MATTHEW 10:23
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The Gospel Is Public
It is impossible to keep the Gospel from anyone. No power in heaven or on earth can do this, for it is a public teaching that moves about freely under the heavens and is bound to no one place. . .. It is true, of course, that the rulers may suppress the Gospel in cities or places where the Gospel is, or where there are preachers; but you can leave these cities or places and follow the Gospel to some other place. It is not necessary, for the Gospel's sake, for you to capture or occupy the city or place; on the contrary, let the ruler have his city; you follow the Gospel. Thus you permit men to wrong you and drive you away; and yet, at the same time, you do not permit men to take the Gospel from you or keep it from you. Thus the two things, suffering and not suffering, turn out to be one. . .. The Gospel needs no physical place or city in which to dwell; it will and must dwell in hearts.

From Admonition to Peace (Luther's Works 46:36)
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