Lutheran (LCMS) Ping!
Christ is in our midst!
Posted on 01/13/2014 6:41:11 AM PST by Gamecock
I also believe that the Church is also a corporate opportunity to worship God and gives the members (who ARE the church) an opportunity to lift up each other.
The congregation, to the extent they are Christians, are the church.
You'll get no argument from me on that.
Christ is in our midst!
unfortunately, the caveat: as long it isn't elcan.
I like it. Just that I’m GenX, and I don’t think it’s just Boomers doing this.
I should say, as mentioned the other day in a similar thread, we’ve left our LCMS church because it has become all hipster doofus and tech-self-conscious. This just happened.
Hoping the next-closest LCMS is consistently good and not kow-towing.
Thanks for the ping. The LCMS congregation we attend is very much like the one I grew up in during the 50s and 60s. I’m happy being a member of that church. Not the usual services like the mega churches, with the big screens to display the songs and sermon texts.
Years ago, someone told us that if you find a Lutheran church within 100 miles of your youth, there will be someone who is kin to you in that church. Sure enough, I have several 2nd cousins attending that church.
What churches are using so-called peace signs? That definitely would make ME rebel! Even my last hipster church didn’t do that!
Personally, I prefer the victory sign to that stupid hippie sign.
I’m hoping I can find a true conservative LCMS. I hope the few others we have don’t cave to this overwhelming trend. Rock music belongs in church like it belongs at a funeral (no comments from the peanut gallery, please). It’s inappropriate, and no, you apologists, I love rock music. Does not belong in church.
You almost have to find an area that is heavy German descent to find that type of church. Our congregation is probably over 90% of German descent. We have no special service with rock or contemporary music like the large congregations in Austin.
Baltimore area used to be very German, as is my family from here. We have many Lutheran churches, but not many of the MS or WI synod. However there are some quite close to us.
I liked our last church for the people. Funny thing was it was VERY “diverse”, which actually makes me proud because it seems to connect to many people, not just white Germans going to their pre-determined church. However, the pastor is not Lutheran in background, he chose it, but he is changing the church to his hipster guitar outlook. He is very nice but I just don’t approve of this approach.
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