I agree. I liked the pastor of my duel Lutheran church. I worked in the school and he would often come in and talk politics with me. Then CoVid hit and the lockdown shut off every light. Nothing. After a month they started streaming a service of sorts where the pastor stood in front of a blue screen with automated choir music and deliver…
I agree. I liked the pastor of my duel Lutheran church. I worked in the school and he would often come in and talk politics with me. Then CoVid hit and the lockdown shut off every light. Nothing. After a month they started streaming a service of sorts where the pastor stood in front of a blue screen with automated choir music and delivered a message. He would state that he abstained from communion until “we” could all take it together, the implication was don’t try to do this at home. Wait. OK, but suddenly last December it was announced we would have communion in every service, never done before. I realized that the all of the new directives were coming not from our board of elders but from the top of the Missouri synod, so we would be homogenous. I want Biblical teaching, what I realized I was getting was a canned sermon, a same every Sunday liturgy, that seemed to be moving more towards the Catholic masses where only the top down was allowed to direct or speak. I have learned more about Martin Luther from this Pentecostal church then I ever did in my own Lutheran church. My new Pastor broke down the Apostles Creed and why it is so important and yet it is not part of their everyday services. I love much about the traditional Lutheran church I grew up in, but I can no longer remain in a tight little group with only my “church” people included. Too many churches failed in the events of covid and the lockdowns. I have learned to give Grace to them as no one knew what was going on, but too many have persisted in sweeping it all under the rug. That can’t ever happen again. I still volunteer at the parochial school and love it, but I pray that the leaders now know how duped we all were.
I agree. I liked the pastor of my duel Lutheran church. I worked in the school and he would often come in and talk politics with me. Then CoVid hit and the lockdown shut off every light. Nothing. After a month they started streaming a service of sorts where the pastor stood in front of a blue screen with automated choir music and delivered a message. He would state that he abstained from communion until “we” could all take it together, the implication was don’t try to do this at home. Wait. OK, but suddenly last December it was announced we would have communion in every service, never done before. I realized that the all of the new directives were coming not from our board of elders but from the top of the Missouri synod, so we would be homogenous. I want Biblical teaching, what I realized I was getting was a canned sermon, a same every Sunday liturgy, that seemed to be moving more towards the Catholic masses where only the top down was allowed to direct or speak. I have learned more about Martin Luther from this Pentecostal church then I ever did in my own Lutheran church. My new Pastor broke down the Apostles Creed and why it is so important and yet it is not part of their everyday services. I love much about the traditional Lutheran church I grew up in, but I can no longer remain in a tight little group with only my “church” people included. Too many churches failed in the events of covid and the lockdowns. I have learned to give Grace to them as no one knew what was going on, but too many have persisted in sweeping it all under the rug. That can’t ever happen again. I still volunteer at the parochial school and love it, but I pray that the leaders now know how duped we all were.