tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post584141784124418169..comments2024-03-29T04:31:15.219-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Sometimes you feel like a nut... sometimes you don'tPastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-13742701115769687862011-01-17T10:39:28.756-06:002011-01-17T10:39:28.756-06:00The lure of the mega church is due
to the hype of ...The lure of the mega church is due<br />to the hype of the media and the<br />"Joel Osteen" theology of health and<br />wealth happiness. Many times these<br />mega churches will capture the fancy<br />of seekers. But after one or two<br />years these seekers want more content<br />and meat of the Holy Scriptures and<br />start to look elsewhere. This is<br />where a solid Christ-centered and<br />Bible-based Lutheran Church (LCMS)<br />can help overcome the shallow mega-<br />church.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-31833588742964662912011-01-17T07:10:20.001-06:002011-01-17T07:10:20.001-06:00Sometimes I fear that the Church has becomes too m...Sometimes I fear that the Church has becomes too much of a home-y place, too much of a family quirk. We often think of Church in terms that revolve around comfort, rather than the profound mysteries that take place there in the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments.<br /><br />As Pastors, we are used to to thinking in terms of the profound, and thus, when someone leaves we want to assume a profound reason (even a profound rejection) - something deep, something which highly impacted them - a fierce argument, a harsh pain.<br /><br />So often, it's just something much more mundane, and I think that is in part because the Church gets treated as such a mundane place.Rev. Eric J Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17747919365522145094noreply@blogger.com