LCMS: Lutheran Service Book (LSB)

[LutherNut]

Did you start reading this from the beginning, Luther? My use of the word Arrogant was in referrence to the presentation of the new hymnal. Not the creation of it (though I object to that too for different reasons). If you are going to join a conversation, especially if you wish to debate a point, please pay attention.

Talk about "arrogance."

 

[DaRev]

Just because someone doesn't agree with your viewpoint, Revrend, does not automatically make them wrong. I will agree, LW has considerable problems. The music was abysmal. It also was another hymnal that the congregations' leaders rushed out to buy. The same thing happened in our congregation this time. Only, there wasn't the money to buy the books. So, we were using a liturgy that came out of a book we weren't allowed to examine closely.

My "viewpoint" is based on fact. Just becasue your pastor did a lousy job of introducing it, don't slam the whole project.

The fact is that the liturgies in the LSB are the same as what is found in the other hymnals. Now, I can understand if a congregation has exclusively used LW and is now using the setting 3 and setting 4 liturgies from LSB that they would see these as "different" or "new". If that is what you are talking about, then I would agree with you. The pastor has done a lousy job of transition. My congregation had been using the Creative Worship series (which is neither creative or worship) which contained elements of all of these service orders. I began weening them off of the Creative Worship by introducing the LSB liturgies over a year ago. They were used to following a different service order every week, so introducing the LSB orders was easy for them. They liked the occasional use of the LW Divine Service (p. 158) which my predecessor had used on occasion. They appreciated the occasional use of the TLH p. 15 service (LSB setting 3) that they were familiar with from years earlier. They also liked the setting 4 service, which comes from the HS98 book and parts of which were regular parts of the Creative Worship services. Transition for us to the new hymnal was easy. And the members of the congregation like it.

Some of the posters in this thread have described an excellent presentation of this hymnal. That's good. All I was asking for, was a little consideration for ALL the members of your congregation. So it takes a little time for the transition. Time, is something Christians have in abundance.

I haven't heard any negative comments about the new hymnal from any of my members. Of course, we have been using it for quite a while and the circumstances of our introduction were somewhat unique.