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St. Walther, pray for us

I have learned from a reliable source that the following prayer was included in a sermon sent by an LCMS district headquarters to congregations for a layperson to read while the pastor was away at the District Convention:

“Dear God, thank you for sending Your Son Jesus Christ to earth. I believe Jesus was who He said He was and proved it by rising from the dead.

I want to get to know You personally. Thank You, Jesus Christ, for dying and rising for me and forgiving all my sins. I now ask You into my heart and accept You as my Lord and Savior and your free gift of eternal life. Amen.”

God help us.
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Anonymous said…
And this went through doctrinal review?!?
6/22/2006 09:45:00 PM
Robert Elart Waters said…
What doctrinal review? It's a part of a a sermon sent by a district headquarters to congregations in its district.

God forgive the former and protect the latter.
6/23/2006 06:13:00 AM
Anonymous said…
The problem I see arising in the LCMS is that many members of the laity, being good Americans, get confused about what the LCMS is. The entire point of LCMS, the reason that it was found and continues to exist, is to promote high confessional Lutheran orthodoxy. The high view of scripture messes alot the laity up, because it makes them think that there's not that much difference between themselves and other American evanglicals, which is profoundly untrue. That's why alot of LCMS churches have started to be indistinguishable from Bible Churches. When I ran Bible study at the LCMS student group in college, all the women were reading the left-behind novels considering them to be "good Christian fiction."
6/23/2006 06:51:00 AM
CPA said…
That's the point of having seminary educated pastors, DP's and all that, right? To make sure that whatever errors of simplicity the less-well informed laity make don't become entrenched as false doctrine.

Like Bob said, God forgive the former and protect the latter.
6/23/2006 10:19:00 AM
Anonymous said…
According to the LCMS bylaw 1.9.1.1(c), when a District publicly distributes material with doctrinal content, the DP and the District BOD are accountable for the doctrinal review.
6/23/2006 10:18:00 PM
Chaz said…
All this is beside the point.

The more serious problem is that a district convention was held on a Sunday when the pastors should have been in their parishes distributing the Lord's gifts.

In a district where this abomination took place three years ago, the heterodox pastors pushed a lot of stuff through on Sunday morning when the faithful pastors were gone.

Kyrie eleison.
6/26/2006 09:29:00 AM
david in norcal said…
This is what you get when you ask that the our adminstration to actually do some work.

The good news is that as a layman, my pastor protects me from the errors the Synod makes.

Quite a system! ;o)
6/26/2006 02:29:00 PM
Anonymous said…
Bob, you can remove this if you want but here is the link to the sermon for those who want to read it. It is from the Pacific Southwest District.
http://www.psw.lcms.org/events/District_Equipping_Conference_june2006/Sermon_RE_Heart_s_On_Resurretion_Fire_051806.pdf

Look on page 4
6/26/2006 04:23:00 PM
Robert Elart Waters said…
It's even worse than I imagined, Steve.
It loses the forgiveness of sins amid a mass of American Evangelical "personal relationship" schlock and other legalistic crud characteristic of that system of misbelief, and when it gets around to mentioning it, transforms the Gospel from a proclamation of what God has done into an offer we have to accept.

Whoever wrote that sermon should be defrocked.
6/26/2006 07:59:00 PM
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