tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post4099323282400975261..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Beware of nice old men who talk about new kinds of worship. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-12438132950863954602014-03-10T14:39:18.557-05:002014-03-10T14:39:18.557-05:00"If we content ourselves with making the outs..."If we content ourselves with making the outsiders feel at home on Sunday morning (as Pastor Peters rightfully condemns), we abdicate our role and purpose as witnesses of the Gospel Monday through Saturday."<br /><br />This is how our congregation expresses witnessing and serving the community: <br /><br /><br />http://www.stjstl.net/about/lifejourney-and-11156/<br /><br />It is not a Sunday morning only entertainment event. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04314080476382907548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-89095525961248802582014-03-10T10:38:04.687-05:002014-03-10T10:38:04.687-05:00"For Lutherans these nice old men almost led ..."For Lutherans these nice old men almost led us down the path of a ceremonial liturgy sung by ministers who believed almost none of the content (Anglicanism's end)."<br /><br />While there is some truth to what Pastor Peters has said here, it oversimplifies matters quite a bit. His comment is an apt description of people like bishops Pike, Spong, Righter, Bennison, etc., but it misses the issue of women's ordination which is lead to catastrophes such as Presiding Bishopess Kate Schori. That is a bullet that the LCMS has managed to dodge fortunately.<br /><br />But to describe these problems as "Anglicanism's end" with a broad brush is incorrect. The traditional faith is still very much alive and vigorous in places such as Fort Worth, South Carolina, and the entire Continuing Anglican movement.<br /><br />Fr. D+<br />Anglican PriestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-61090831189925253562014-03-10T09:16:31.966-05:002014-03-10T09:16:31.966-05:00Witness happens implicitly in worship but it is th...Witness happens implicitly in worship but it is the deliberate work of the church outside the House of the Lord as the Gospel is spoken and acted out in contact with the world and those not yet of the Kingdom.<br /><br />The early church did not even allow the non-believer into the worship assembly. Now we have turned the place where we worship into a stadium designed to reach those who do not believe. We have turned the tables upside down.<br /><br />The community of the baptized gathered for worship is hardly an effective place for evangelization. It is not that it could not happen there but that it is not the domain or venue where it is to happen.<br /><br />If we content ourselves with making the outsiders feel at home on Sunday morning (as Pastor Peters rightfully condemns), we abdicate our role and purpose as witnesses of the Gospel Monday through Saturday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-16670608062668101922014-03-10T08:35:47.448-05:002014-03-10T08:35:47.448-05:00" Nice old men who insisted that evangelism ..." Nice old men who insisted that evangelism take place in worship, that those outside the church be as comfortable and at home on Sunday morning as those raised in the faith,"<br />Where should evangelism take place?<br />Listening to Sunday services on KFUO I would not be able to answer that question. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04314080476382907548noreply@blogger.com