Stand firm in your faith, or you will not stand at all Exposing the threats to Confessional Lutheranism
..."Evangelism Training" will be nothing more than continued study and meditation on the proper distinction between law and Gospel.
...the central act of Evangelism is not asking the unbeliever to come to Jesus, but rather, in the name of Jesus, forgiving their sins. Evangelism is the Church speaking the Absolution to the World.
The Last of the Seattle Summer
“I hope you’re not superstitious.”
You Don’t See This Every Day: Space Shuttle Endeavour Rolls Through L.A.
We’re So Serious About Being Church We’re Going to Cancel Church!
The Purpose of the District, by Joe Strieter
The King Tut Exhibition: Going, Going…
The Atlantic District of the LCMS – Dividing the House
Are You Generis? Probably Not. But Your District Might Be.
An Executive Pastor Position: The Kiss of Death
The Slave’s Purpose-Driven List of 'Encouragement'
Transhumanism: The Logical End Product of Evolution
The Four Stages of Church Growth Disease
Rev. Dr. Matthew Becker: Nature Interprets Scripture
In You Changing a Diaper, Christ Celebrates His Victory over the Devil
Fifteen Things Not to Do in a Sermon
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate
Darwin vs. Beauty: The End of the Argument
God Hates Sin but Loves the Sinner?
Alchemy: The Pot Becomes the Potter
Jamming for Jesus: Giving Him My Everything
Pastor Joel Osteen on Piers Morgan Tonight: Word-Faith Confusion
Wooden Beauty – Churches of the Russian North
President Kieschnick is Right – This Really Isn’t Your Grandfather’s Church
You Can Take the Rast Out of Jamaica, but…
The Kilt Makes the Man – with Addendum
A Satisfactory Explanation for “Begotten”
America's New God - The Environment
Rev. Dr. Kieschnick’s Book Waking the Sleeping Giant: Cleaving Practice from Doctrine
Attention Open Communion Pastors
Universalism: The Gospel Message of Emergent and New Age Spirituality
Theological Pluralism in the LCMS
Institutionalism: A Lack of Confidence
Bursting the BRTFSSG Bubble Series
iPhone: There's a Pastor for Just About Anything
A Bag Full of Mercy, Grace, and Love
VBS 2009 - Jesus Makes All Things New
The Transforming Churches Network Series
Is the LCMS an Orthodox Church Body?
What Is a Confessional Lutheran?
When Business and Church Merge
The Liturgy is God’s Leiturgia
Given the Left Foot of Fellowship
Be Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves
The Pastor vs. The Clinical Ethicist
Terms You Must Use - Bureaucrat Style
The Top Ten List of Things You’ll Never Hear Scott Diekmann Say
WWJOD (What Would Joel Osteen Do?)
A Book Review of “Testing the Claims of Church Growth,” by Rev. Rodney E. Zwonitzer
Cutting Down on the Cost of Seminary Education: Is This the Next Step?
The Glamorous Life of the Airline Pilot
The Worldview Everlasting Studio Tour – Eye Popping, with a Dash of Intrigue
Issues, Etc. Takes a Giant Turn for the Worst
Absolute Truth Exists - Here It Is
President Harrison jamming with the Ditty Bops
Who’s the best presidential candidate in 2012?
President Harrison and Pastor Baue during Lutheran Heritage Week
Frank’s pietistic Ablaze! bracelet
Dr. Martin Noland in a previous lifetime
Dr. Larry Rast back in his Rastafarian days
The Wesleyan version of Law and Gospel
The Chair of the new LCMS task force
Todd Wilken making an exception to his “no autograph” rule
Pastor Walter Snyder caught moonlighting
Sola Scriptura + Sola Gratia + Sola Fide
4 comments:
Pr W has a great way of putting things. Hope Lutheran Church website is a great resource.
God's peace. †
Excellent post! Bryan's statement would be a fabulous addition to ALL L.C.M.S. congregation web sites! Thanks!
Maybe Pastor Wolfmueller's statement could be turned into a mission statement: Generic Lutheran Church's mission is to be about the forgiveness of sins for the life of the world through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I have long thought that we ought to "advertise" our congregations as places where one receives forgiveness of sins. Period.
Johannes
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