I’m sorry, but I disagree that the Lutheran Church is evangelical.
The idea of following man made doctrines like Ash Wednesday is too questionable for traditional evangelical churches.
Disagree all you want. It doesn’t change facts one bit. And just so you know we are the conservative branch and have nothing to do with the ELCA and their craziness.
It matters not at all to ones salvation if one celebrates and recognizes specific holidays and rememberances or not. I happen to find it enriches my worship, YMMV. However I think you would find the doctrine of my denomination straight down the middle.
Lent is focused on the time Christ began His final journey to Jerusalem, and is a time of somber reflection. In my church it has nothing to do with eating fish or giving things up. The focus is on Christ as it should be and not on anything the believer does or does not do. Often the characters and motivations of the key players in the passion are studied, and the focus is on how God used all of them and how they responded to their part in the events, whether they believed in Christ or not.
If you have not been to a Good Friday service you might just find it very powerful, you might not. Same with an Easter service. Those that celebrate religious holidays are no less saved or evangelical than those that do not. Do not look down on certain observances because Satan was able to mimic and try to corrupt the celebrations, look at the motivation and Who the celebration is focusing on. You might be pleasantly surprised. (In some denominations, not all)
Before saying that, you need to know that Luther did not establish "The Lutheran Church." If you go throughout Germany, you won't find "The Lutheran Church". Luther was responsible for "The Landeskirchen", each government body responsible for the church within their borders. That was the name used in Germany for what we call 'lutheranism'. After hundreds of years those combined into the Evangelische Church....meaning 'Evangelical'.
All over Germany you'll find Evangelische services.
Do they 'evangelize' the gospel of Jesus having died for our sins according to scripture? I wouldn't bet on that, so the issue is whether they are "evangelical" or are just called "evangelical."
Thought you'd find that of interest.
However, the Missouri and Wisconsin Synods of the Lutheran movement in America are very conservative, biblical, and evangelical. I am not part of any Lutheran body.
“I’m sorry, but I disagree that the Lutheran Church is evangelical.
The idea of following man made doctrines like Ash Wednesday is too questionable for traditional evangelical churches.”
LOL, this is just too funny.
You mean those ‘traditional’ evangelical churches which hate ‘tradition’?
There are so many of them, which one is yours? When was it founded? Is it 20, 50, 100 years old? Or was it started last week in a strip mall?