Pastoral Meanderings: You want to be proud of our church body? Listen up...

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

You want to be proud of our church body? Listen up...

To watch a three part presentation of President Matt Harrison on and broad array of issues and topics facing our church, you can click on the links below.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

He speaks upon such things as confession, relationship with the ELCA, GLABT issues, repentance, preaching, and a host of other things well worth you time to watch and consider.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I deeply appreciate his honesty. Now that he has identified the problems within the LCMS......what's next? How long will we have to wait until we see any solutions to these 40+ year old issues?

The remarks about the NALC and the LCMC sadden me. I had hoped that these ex-ELCA denominations would come around to the LCMS way of seeing things. Is there any hope that they will?; November 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Carl Vehse said...: Anonymous: "How long will we have to wait until we see any solutions to these 40+ year old issues?"

Regarding President Harrison's (unofficial) comment about preaching on the Missouri Synod to be fruitful and multiply its birth rate to meet or exceed that of Mohammedans... at least 9 months.; November 2, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Daniel Baker said...: This is well worth watching. You LCMSers are blessed with your leader.; November 2, 2011 at 8:22 PM

The Window

This is the Means of Grace Window that is above the altar of Grace Lutheran Church where I serve. It reminds us of the keys (confession and absolution), the wheat(the bread which is the Body of Christ), the cup (which is His Blood), the Word (Scripture), and the Pastoral Office (the red stole). In this one wonderful window we see the treasures of the Church in the Word and Sacraments and I love that it is available for all to see. I realize that this image has been stolen all over the internet but it is a real window, a copyrighted image, belonging to Grace Lutheran Church, Clarksville, Tennessee, which has kindly allowed my use of it...