Joel Biermann, the Waldemar A. and June Schuette Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, here considers a Lutheran approach to virtue and character formation in light of the two kinds of righteousness as well as law and gospel. Following Luther’s teaching in “The Freedom of the Christian,” Biermann argues for a Christian ethic based on the law with the gospel excluded, focusing on service to the other rather than on personal improvement or fulfillment.