Let us review what we’ve been saying over these months about catholicity and the communion of the saints. First, if catholicity is to be preserved, the church must recognize its own ecclesiastical culture of order, format, music, and language which transcends individual and group cultural ...
Diverse cultural forms in worship and ministry are thought to honor ethnic and social diversity. Church leaders are eager to demonstrate sensitivity to the cultural preferences of each identifiable demographic group within society. Accommodating those preferences with worship services featuring ...
Those who want to market the church to one sort of person and bypass the rest may argue that most churches primarily reach a certain type of person, whether black or white, whether affluent or middle class. However, there is a difference between recognizing a fact (some churches will have ...
For several weeks on Sunday nights we looked at the “communion of the saints.” In light of what we’ve seen, what are we to think of the claim of the leadership of the normally staid Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod (with apologies to Buick): “This is not your ...
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung andpossibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to noone, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid ...