[Mr. Lucky]

Mr. Kieshnik apparently assumes that the only reason any of us are LCMS is because our grandfathers were. My grandfathers were not. I joined the LCMS because it was doctrinally and liturgically sound and based upon Scripture.

On Sundays during the summer, there is no LCMS congregation anywhere near so I attend Mass. Whether the parish priest is personally heretical (he's not), the liturgy is sound and the doctrine, with minor exception, differs not a whit from that announced in the Augsburg Confession. I find it much easier to think about baseball during a prayer for the magisterium than I do to think about Scripture during a hymn accompanied by bongo drums.

[Boagenes]

You know, your attitude and my attitude sound completely in synch. I couldn't agree with you more. My LCMS church is big on the "modern" worship thing although they also conduct a traditional service. If I want a rock concert I'll buy a ticket to go see one. I don't want electric guitars, bongos and synthesizers in my worship. I want liturgy, I want something that reminds me that it is worship and it is something sacred. I'm not going to a coffee shop or a club, I going to church to worship Christ, I am not going to dance or wave my hands above my head or anything else I might see at a Grateful Dead show.