tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820798894846245311.post8705351911706583875..comments2024-02-03T20:47:08.995-06:00Comments on This Side of the Pulpit: The "Only Thing Left" in the LCMS?Christopher D. Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03906949438584923588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820798894846245311.post-8145295402189142452008-09-17T18:31:00.000-05:002008-09-17T18:31:00.000-05:00If that's the only thing left. . . then none of al...If that's the only thing left. . . then none of all this falling apart is a tragedy, I guess.Rev. Eric J Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17747919365522145094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820798894846245311.post-48375924061413456622008-09-17T08:32:00.000-05:002008-09-17T08:32:00.000-05:00Father Hollywood nailed it. In my way of thinking...Father Hollywood nailed it. In my way of thinking, the Confessions bind us to the Ecumenical Creeds of the undivided church, to the Word and the many visible words that still bring the Holy Spirit with His gifts. Anything that "emerges" or "restructures" will either point with greater clarity to that unchangeable foundation or be swept away like a house built on sand.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09350908137437557142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-820798894846245311.post-83831899167681904942008-09-16T21:31:00.000-05:002008-09-16T21:31:00.000-05:00In the LCMS, postmodernism has already won. If we...In the LCMS, postmodernism has already won. If we, who value the liturgy, the ministry, and the confessional articulation of the Gospel of our "grandfather's church" have to realize that in order to remain in the LCMS, we will have to accept that we are simply "one way" (and according to our pragmatic bureaucrats, not even the "best" way) to "do church."<BR/><BR/>The seminaries have capitulated (note their acceptance of Ablaze, of the SMP program, of vicars being sent to "consecrate," the institutional acceptance of insipid worship), and the placing of "emergent" methodologies on the (lucrative) pedestal across the board in our districts.<BR/><BR/>At best, we are tolerated as relics and dinosaurs who need to be re-educated.<BR/><BR/>We need to make sure we all have our parachutes ready. I have no idea what the source of Klemet Preus's optimism is (according to his recent rosy analysis of where the synod is headed). We are moving entirely in the wrong direction, and are institutionalizing very serious doctrinal errors and practices that will simply move us further away from the Lutheran confessions and catholic tradition.Rev. Larry Beanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06705910892752648940noreply@blogger.com