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Hello everyone and God's blessings upon everyone. As many here know, I want to join the Missouri Synod. The Lutheran Chaplain that is here however travels alot, and is hardly ever here, so my encounters with him have been very few, though helpful. My other thread I posted not to long ago that speaks about how I need patient and how excited I am still holds. I feel like I'm going nuts, for one to be with my awesome loving family, and the other to start my journey in joining the LC-MS. I have been so "thirsty" for knowledge on Lutheran Theology and I've been looking up much on my own and "self" teaching.
Thanks to a link another member here posted, I have been looking at Jonathan Fisk's World View Everlasting videos as of late and that has been so awesome. Are there any others however on youtube or anything that can help me get more knowledge. I have also been speaking to my soon to be Pastor and he has been very helpful on clarifying things as well.
Also, and last, as many know, christians from other denominations and I gather to simply read the bible, and talk about what we believe it says. Slowly I have been introducing Lutheran Theologies in there, today however, was really heavy on it, gospel vs. law, justification, sanctification, we had a discussion on speaking in tongues as well, and they actually agreed with all of the LCMS official point of views... and that was cool, but, I know for a fact that the Pentecostals and Baptist and whatnot do NOT hold these views. Should I talk to them about lutheranism?
How can I even talk about Lutheranism when I am barely learning about it and only scratching the surface, how can I hold a debate that it is indeed biblical and that their views aren't, without involving their faith in God, because I can see it, they are devout christian men... I've invited all of them to join me to church but they are set on their churches except for my best friend here. He's willing to tag along. I mean, I had a discussion with one in particular how I came to Lutheranism and his words were:
"Be careful because even though it may be biblical and you agree with their theology you might not do so good in their church, you might end up leaving it later..." And I was just very dumbfounded, how can that even begin to make sense?
1. It is biblical
2. I think it's biblical
3. I think it's a pure Christian teaching
4. I agree with it's theology
How can that not be good for me to join... whatever, now I'm ranting. Sorry. Anyway, that's all I got.
(EDIT: Clarification for any that don't know me, we are in Afghanistan, there are no churches here, and we have 3 Chaplains that rotate, one which I think I have narrowed down to Baptist, 1 Roman Catholic, and 1 Lutheran.
Thanks to a link another member here posted, I have been looking at Jonathan Fisk's World View Everlasting videos as of late and that has been so awesome. Are there any others however on youtube or anything that can help me get more knowledge. I have also been speaking to my soon to be Pastor and he has been very helpful on clarifying things as well.
Also, and last, as many know, christians from other denominations and I gather to simply read the bible, and talk about what we believe it says. Slowly I have been introducing Lutheran Theologies in there, today however, was really heavy on it, gospel vs. law, justification, sanctification, we had a discussion on speaking in tongues as well, and they actually agreed with all of the LCMS official point of views... and that was cool, but, I know for a fact that the Pentecostals and Baptist and whatnot do NOT hold these views. Should I talk to them about lutheranism?
How can I even talk about Lutheranism when I am barely learning about it and only scratching the surface, how can I hold a debate that it is indeed biblical and that their views aren't, without involving their faith in God, because I can see it, they are devout christian men... I've invited all of them to join me to church but they are set on their churches except for my best friend here. He's willing to tag along. I mean, I had a discussion with one in particular how I came to Lutheranism and his words were:
"Be careful because even though it may be biblical and you agree with their theology you might not do so good in their church, you might end up leaving it later..." And I was just very dumbfounded, how can that even begin to make sense?
1. It is biblical
2. I think it's biblical
3. I think it's a pure Christian teaching
4. I agree with it's theology
How can that not be good for me to join... whatever, now I'm ranting. Sorry. Anyway, that's all I got.
(EDIT: Clarification for any that don't know me, we are in Afghanistan, there are no churches here, and we have 3 Chaplains that rotate, one which I think I have narrowed down to Baptist, 1 Roman Catholic, and 1 Lutheran.
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