tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post1459971807397118483..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Why lay pastors. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-60798381955941435162017-10-07T11:57:33.855-05:002017-10-07T11:57:33.855-05:00Pr. Poedel
No, Deacons are not separate category ...Pr. Poedel<br /><br />No, Deacons are not separate category for Word and Service. That is your ELCA speak coming through. Especially after the Task Force and last convention. Deacons are to be removed from pastoral duties. Those who may qualify under our bastardized situation will be allowed to convert to SMP, and therefore become pastors to fulfill pastoral duties, function and roles. The only way deacons will become Servants of the Word is if the LCMS adopts a threefold office. However, that kinda won't happen due to the Treatise (one fold office: you at in it or you are not) and the we have DP's-bishops, pastor-priests and SMP-deacons.<br /><br />Hopefully soon our Wichita mess will be cleaned up, and IF we need deacons, we will approach it from a Biblical perspective. Not a sociological touchy-feely one.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09648337362763755187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-87422762837500998282017-10-06T14:09:39.575-05:002017-10-06T14:09:39.575-05:00I will dissent only in that I have been preparing ...I will dissent only in that I have been preparing Deacons for many years and teach them well. Their sermons and the effort of collaboration with their Pastor and are only done for specific purposes....like giving the Pastor a vacation. My Deacons were not the ones who served as pastors of parishes, though I have heard some very Lutheran sermons from some of them....in fact I was one for 10 years before the Bylaw that allowed my Colloquy....They are a separate category of prepared Servants of Word and Service.Padre Dave Poedelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14033503960196272783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-129542824124738682017-10-06T12:55:20.629-05:002017-10-06T12:55:20.629-05:00Lutheran Pastors still use pulpits?
Not the last 1...Lutheran Pastors still use pulpits?<br />Not the last 10 LCMS churches I've been to. If you look back, you'll see his notes (only) projected on the back wall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-73165787020505424022017-10-06T12:40:12.286-05:002017-10-06T12:40:12.286-05:00Too many pastors try to wing it in the pulpit and ...Too many pastors try to wing it in the pulpit and have not prepared<br />a sermon which allows God's Word to have its affect on the hearer.<br />A Christ-centered sermon with law and gospel will comfort the afflicted<br />and afflict the comfortable.<br /><br />I am always suspicious of the preacher who has no manuscript in the<br />pulpit. For some pastors the work of preparing a meaningful sermon<br />each week is a low priority. A preacher should be ashamed to stand<br />in the pulpit and simply ramble on and on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-63406940266234805912017-10-06T08:20:02.210-05:002017-10-06T08:20:02.210-05:00Lay preachers...the result of the loss of the offi...Lay preachers...the result of the loss of the office of the priesthood, apostolic ordination and a distortion of the priesthood of all believers.Joseph Braggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-31352019189581795922017-10-06T08:10:55.894-05:002017-10-06T08:10:55.894-05:00Every time preaching gets confused with teaching t...Every time preaching gets confused with teaching then preaching suffers.David Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966977894876326659noreply@blogger.com