Posted on 06/11/2007 11:16:47 AM PDT by NYer
Somehow I don’t think that the clown eucharist at the Episcopal church matches the spirit in which Francis of Assisi acted as “Le Jongleur de Dieu.” There are “seeker friendly” services but those pictures give the appearance of blasphemy and farce . . .
Chesterton on Francis of Assisi
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/St_Francis.html
One of the best friends I’ve never met in person is a young LCMS minister now stationed in the Orlando area. We’ve had numerous debates, but we find that we have much more in common than differences. Many of the LCMS churches that I’ve seen are more Catholic than the Methodist-types that became popular in the 80s and 90s.
We frequently stood shoulder to shoulder (over in another forum) against the heathens, the barbarians, and those who have a daily bowl of YOPIOS.
It might be curious to hear from the other side, someone who actually takes this seriously. I suspect we would be considered philistines lacking the refinement to discern the value of this artistic expression.
Or maybe it's a matter of "throw it on the wall and see what sticks". Attend enough performances and installations and you might stumble on an actual artist among all the Serious Art.
Thank you for pointing this out. Quint and I are also LC-MS and I can tell you that my grandmother, my mother, and my confirmation pastor would be rolling over in their graves — no, let me correct that — they’d be doing wheelies in their graves if this kind of shenanigans danced it’s way down the aisle in our church.
This does not say worshiping God to me. I’d find a new home church.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. - 2 Timothy 4:3,4
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