Archive for June, 2009

Personal Relationship or Faith in Faith?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

 

You won’t have to troll through many LCMS websites to find a “mission statement” saying their mission is to “lead others to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”  You won’t talk very long to a member or a pastor of a contemporary worshipping church (Yes, there is a double entendre there.) without a personal relationship to Jesus coming up.  I think what they are really talking about is having faith in faith, and I think it absolutely inimical to the Lutheran Faith and just plain sad for Christians. (more…)

Acting for God

Monday, June 8th, 2009

 

“The more genuine and deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us” Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  This quote is at the bottom of The Rev. Lowell Michelson May 2009 newsletter article.  I find it incredibly ironic.  Why?  Because The Rev. Lowell Michelson is the ELCA pastor who will one day give an account for the soul of Dr. George Tiller. (more…)

A World Worth Noting

Monday, June 1st, 2009

 

I personally don’t like World magazine and would not read it if a member didn’t give it to me, but some observations I’ve found there are worth noting. (more…)