tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post68706104355006809..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Doctrinally pure agendas and hymnals....Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-13102864055125485962012-06-18T08:08:54.034-05:002012-06-18T08:08:54.034-05:00I'm not sure that chanting is, in fact, an adi...I'm not sure that chanting is, in fact, an adiaphoron. St. Paul instructs us to "...SING Psalms....". How do we imagine we will sing the Psalms if we don't chant them?Marinus Veenmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747660423889714313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-5469750801927598522011-11-12T16:30:09.388-06:002011-11-12T16:30:09.388-06:00If "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" were the ...If "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" were the big issue here, we would be rejoicing all the way to heaven. It is not and so our rejoicing over the kingdom is tempered by those who detract from Christ and His gift with fuzzy stuff that mixes theologies and outright false teaching that sounds good and makes the tears run.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-42535300139897422932011-11-12T14:44:03.040-06:002011-11-12T14:44:03.040-06:00So, Anonymous, What is your point? Are you saying...So, Anonymous, What is your point? Are you saying that because you sang a doctrinally sound hymn from outside the hymnal that therefore all congregations all congregations should do whatever the pastor wants, because we can trust all LCMS pastors?Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13715953453920138624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-49118510092959533332011-11-11T15:08:48.119-06:002011-11-11T15:08:48.119-06:00Our congregation sang "Great is Thy
Faithfuln...Our congregation sang "Great is Thy<br />Faithfulness" in our Worship Service<br />from 1990 forward. It was officially<br />in our LCMS hymnal in 2006.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-21150970200662426602011-11-11T13:52:40.268-06:002011-11-11T13:52:40.268-06:00What worries me in all this is not the diversity a...What worries me in all this is not the diversity amongst LCMS's individual parishes, or amongst it's clergy. That is a big enough 'problem' in itself.<br /><br />What worries me is the individual members. They may or may not have been properly catechized. I encounter members who have that very attitude of, "Well, that's just one opinion..." I fear there is a tide of 'diversity' amongst members that will be equivalent to the deadly red tide now affecting the Texas coast. <br /><br />Red tides kill fish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-61907250795109275852011-11-11T11:29:44.290-06:002011-11-11T11:29:44.290-06:00Adiaphora is nothing more than code for "do w...Adiaphora is nothing more than code for "do whatever you want."Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06200319733737651773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-22312215822870823102011-11-11T09:20:13.969-06:002011-11-11T09:20:13.969-06:00"Congregations are urged to let the basic str..."Congregations are urged to let the basic structure of the service remain intact. The wide choice permitted in the Rubrics makes it possible to have the Service as simple or elaborate as the circumstances of each congregation may indicate."<br /><br />From the General Rubrics of THE Lutheran Hymnal. Which speaks an entirely different mindset than the churchy versions of secular diversity policy statement of late.<br /><br />Note the singular -- the Service. Sunday service with or without Communion, Matins, Vespers/Compline. Within which such singular service "diversity" may happen in elaborateness.<br /><br />An entirely different scenario from five different services, Matins or a Morning Prayer (though I suppose that since Vatican II Matins is now abolished for an Office of Readings which may be said any time and since we must always follow Rome saying "me too") etc.<br /><br />Once you abandon the singular, the lid will never be put on what can or cannot be included in the plural, and someone will always insist If not that then why not this too, Judas H it's unity not uniformity and this is within the unity too.<br /><br />One of the insanities of the age is that adjectives and adjectival nouns have a meaning separate from the nouns they modify. As long as we act like Vatican II was the hoped-for council to resolve everything and follow Rome's novus ordo pattern of this or that, Option A, B, or C, etc, our service books will only contribute to the very situation they seek to resolve.Terry Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122266461403246084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-18792727715132163102011-11-11T08:36:13.083-06:002011-11-11T08:36:13.083-06:00The LCMS pastor needs to be trusted
by his brethre...The LCMS pastor needs to be trusted<br />by his brethren in the ministry.<br />All of the doctrinally pure hymns<br />will never fit into one hymnal.<br />We do not need hymn-policemen to tell<br />us what hymns to use each week.<br />The Missouri Synod is advisory and<br />that seems to get lost in discussion.<br />For example one of my favorite hymns<br />is "To God Be The Glory" and it is<br />not found in LCMS hymnals. We sing<br />it in our parish without remorse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com