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Smash the Patriarchy!
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I have been to three LCMS and three LCC congregations.
Two of the LCMS congregations I have visited were mid-to-low church, They both have most of the trappings to be high church. But, how should I put it...? They both would fail the criteria test for www.lutheranliturgy..org on all three counts. One was mostly-open Communion (checklist in bulletin), the other had the proverbal "happy-hour at jake's bar and grill" attitude to sharing the Body and Blood of our Savior. These congregations were from Camas and Vancouver, Washington.
The third, I think could almost be listed on the Lutheran Liturgy web site. High Church indeed. The pastor only invited me to Communion after a brief solemn discussion about the nature of the Sacrament. If my work did not "require" me to stay near Portland, Oregon (I cannot imagine why, I'm in Denmark almost as often as I am at home), I could possibly consider moving all the way across the country, to Rome, New York!
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church LC-MS, 502 West Chestnut Street, Rome, NY 13440, 315-336-8090.
All of the LCC congregations would probably all be High Church. At one of the congregations, one of the sermons, was mostly about a subject I kinda thought probably belonged in the announcements, but he did slip a strong law-gospel segue in. The other sermons I heard from this pastor were nothing less than exceptional. Of the other two congregations, one even used glass (non-disposable) individual cups, only as an alternative for those who let the common cup pass by. All of the pastors for these congregations respetfully requested that I refrain from Communion while still being officially associated with the ELCA. They were also three of the most warm and caring pastors (as well as flocks) I have ever met.
Berea-By-The-Water Lutheran Church, 326 Gibbons Street, Goderich, ON N7A 3Z6, 519-524-2235
Grace Lutheran Church, RR 4, Kincardine, ON N2Z 2X5, 519-395-4466
Zion Lutheran Church, 144 - 7th Street, Morden, MB R6M 1E2, 204-822-4838
I have seen (and at one time, participated in) everything from High-Church in appearance to rock-band-in-front-of-the-Altar, hands-in-the-air, dancing-in-the-aisles schwarming in the ELCA.
Two of the LCMS congregations I have visited were mid-to-low church, They both have most of the trappings to be high church. But, how should I put it...? They both would fail the criteria test for www.lutheranliturgy..org on all three counts. One was mostly-open Communion (checklist in bulletin), the other had the proverbal "happy-hour at jake's bar and grill" attitude to sharing the Body and Blood of our Savior. These congregations were from Camas and Vancouver, Washington.
The third, I think could almost be listed on the Lutheran Liturgy web site. High Church indeed. The pastor only invited me to Communion after a brief solemn discussion about the nature of the Sacrament. If my work did not "require" me to stay near Portland, Oregon (I cannot imagine why, I'm in Denmark almost as often as I am at home), I could possibly consider moving all the way across the country, to Rome, New York!
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church LC-MS, 502 West Chestnut Street, Rome, NY 13440, 315-336-8090.
All of the LCC congregations would probably all be High Church. At one of the congregations, one of the sermons, was mostly about a subject I kinda thought probably belonged in the announcements, but he did slip a strong law-gospel segue in. The other sermons I heard from this pastor were nothing less than exceptional. Of the other two congregations, one even used glass (non-disposable) individual cups, only as an alternative for those who let the common cup pass by. All of the pastors for these congregations respetfully requested that I refrain from Communion while still being officially associated with the ELCA. They were also three of the most warm and caring pastors (as well as flocks) I have ever met.
Berea-By-The-Water Lutheran Church, 326 Gibbons Street, Goderich, ON N7A 3Z6, 519-524-2235
Grace Lutheran Church, RR 4, Kincardine, ON N2Z 2X5, 519-395-4466
Zion Lutheran Church, 144 - 7th Street, Morden, MB R6M 1E2, 204-822-4838
I have seen (and at one time, participated in) everything from High-Church in appearance to rock-band-in-front-of-the-Altar, hands-in-the-air, dancing-in-the-aisles schwarming in the ELCA.
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