Post details: LCMS Issues Are Discontinued
LCMS Issues Are Discontinued
If there are any die-hards out there who still check my blog every once in a while, I'm sure you have noticed that I have removed all the former posts regarding LC-MS issues, nor am I posting any new comments, nor am I writing any new articles regarding those issues for publishing elsewhere.
I have been off the blog for over a year, due to my own personal reasons. I intend to begin posting again, but be advised that the character of the blog will be changing to reflect other issues of interest, such as local mountain community issues, thoughts on vocation, life and death issues (I work in an Emergency Room!), yet still from the perspective of a confessional Lutheran.
However, as far as the LC-MS is concerned, I have nothing further to say on the issue. I watched the debacle of the 2007 convention, read the first meeting minutes of the Board of Directors, and it must now be completely obvious to the most casual oberver that the bus that once was the LC-MS is in the ditch. In spite of many efforts by some valiant people to dig it out, it is stuck fast and there is nothing more that can be done.
Yet, I grieve for the tragedy that has befallen the Synod in which I was first brought to faith in Christ. In spite of the fact that, like suicide, this tragedy comes at the hands of those at the helm of the Synod itself, this is no less a tragedy, for the LC-MS could have remained a strong Confessional Lutheran body in our communities and in our country, yet it has freely chosen to leave that path of righteousness, leaving a very small group of faithful individuals, who still do remain confessional, to carry on in solitude, much like the 7000 Israelites of Elijah's day who refused to bend the knee to Baal. Of course, our current Baal is the contemporary society, social gospel, and post-modern relativism, which we see reflected and embraced in the LC-MS of today.
While I'm sure there is much that remains to be discussed about the state of the LC-MS, that discussion will no longer happen on this blog.
I say this for myself primarily, but also for others who feel as I do. And that is, that we must keep in mind that, although the Synod has betrayed us, Christ and His gospel, His love, and His forgiveness, never will.
Kyrie Eleison.
