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Feed: Pastoral Meanderings
Posted on: Saturday, October 16, 2010 8:45 AM
Author: noreply@blogger.com (Pastor Peters)
Subject: Reformation Creep...
One of the disturbing aspects of being in a church body formed from the Great Reformation is the recognition that there is a certain creep in that church body -- a creep away from the Church of the Augsburg Confession and toward the radical reformers that Luther ran out of town. Both in vocabulary and piety, we are definitely more in the corner of the Reformed than the Lutheran -- I mean this in the sense of every day conversation, the Christian music our people listen to on radio, the kind of Bible study leaders so popular with others and with us... We have become very comfortable in a Reformed world of fundamentalism, evangelicalism, mega-church Christianity, and even pentecostalism. Too comfortable. The "sound track" of our piety is not a Lutheran sound track -- it does not flow from the means of grace (Word and Sacrament) but from the realm of feeling, direct Spirit guidance and assurance, and it is individualistic (not community oriented). |