tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2233364063631635056..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: In the GhettoPastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-3538505567494201392010-08-08T23:43:18.351-05:002010-08-08T23:43:18.351-05:00I think now is the time to be proud of being a Lut...I think now is the time to be proud of being a Lutheran again. Like Bill S. said, many people are tiring of where American Evangelicalism and liberal Protestantism has been going, and if only we Lutherans would not try to be like the rest, but learn to be confident in our faith, then we would be more willing to invite others, because everyone should have the wondrous Gifts that we Lutherans have in our Word and Sacraments. The time is to be engaged, but part of it is retraining Lutherans on what it means to be Lutheran again.Karinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-16244715602431003412010-08-08T09:52:48.792-05:002010-08-08T09:52:48.792-05:00The problem, pastor, is that this is the wrong tim...The problem, pastor, is that this is the wrong time for Lutherans to be in the ghetto. <br /><br />From what I see and hear from so many Christians, they are fed up with much of Evangelicalism, and the Emergent church is too much like heresy. They are hungry for meaningful worship; they want to connect and be a part of the ancient Christian church with its' history.<br /><br />And so, seeing nothing else on the landscape, they 'swim the Tiber' in increasing numbers. We Lutherans should be the alternative to an often irrelevent Evangelicalism---not the RCC!Bill S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-72209725166599386532010-08-07T15:10:01.190-05:002010-08-07T15:10:01.190-05:00Fr.Peters,
It seems to me that the Roman Christia...Fr.Peters,<br /><br />It seems to me that the Roman Christians largely lived in the ghetto, too (literallly, in Rome itself). There were many who were slaves. Not slaves like America has known them. People conquered by Rome, brought back enslaved to a military might not necessarily their better. These slaves were writers, poets, doctors, lawyers. They were often more literate, more intelligent than their owners.<br /><br />Israelites suffered the same fate many times over in their history.<br /><br />So maybe, just maybe the ghetto (if it's not the "Evanglical Ghetto" a la Michael Horton - which is what you speak of amongst ourselves as Lutherans) isn't all bad....Janis Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947508427040251166noreply@blogger.com