Thoughtfully yours, LCMS

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I read a few blogs here and there when I have the time. Sometimes I come across one that speaks especially well to the current issues regarding the state of the LCMS and her future.

I would like to start this thread for the purpose of posting links to exceptional articles and blog posts that continue in the spirit I mentioned above.

Please only post links to essays and discussions that are not overly and blatantly disingenuous or callous. No links to rantings and ravings of those from either extreme end of the spectrum. Just well-balanced and rational stuff here, thanks.

To start things off, here is a very good article by Pastor Larry Peters from Grace Lutheran Church, Clarksville, TN. Pastor Peters blogs at Pastoral Meanderings

And here is the post I would like to direct your attention to:
Pastoral Meanderings: Triumphalism and the Missouri Synod



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Here's another good one, from Steadfast Lutherans, discussing this site: Cross-Focused Leadership for Missouri

It is apparently designed for LCMS convention delegates, that is, those going to Houston this summer. There are a couple of letters addressed specifically to delegates. But it also has a fair amount of useful information for people interested in what’s going on in the Missouri Synod today. It has a number of posts in the Overtures and Resolutions section about the Blue Ribbon Task Force proposals, including some “real, live” overtures. The Issues section has some interesting posts too. The posts allow comments, and there are also a couple of feedback sections. RSS feeds and Email subscriptions are offered.


The writers or editors don’t appear to be taking any extreme positions on any issues. They say they “just want to be Lutheran.” That sounds good to me. See below for the urgency of some of these overtures — if your congregation is holding a voter’s meeting in the next week read over the overtures at the site and get them passed and submitted to the synodical president.

 

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Pr Matthew Harrison spotlights the story of Walter Obare, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya, and his struggle to uphold Confessional Lutheranism from within a synod historically tied to European Lutherans who have succumbed to liberal theology.

Mercy Journeys with Pastor Harrison: It’s TIME to rock the Lutheran World