CNH Convention Observations – More On the Outside than I Thought
By the end of the convention, I came to realize that being in a confessional Lutheran congregation has likely put me in the minority within the district. I have no doubt that the vast majority of pastors would say they still subscribe to all the documents they vowed to honor. But it appears that there have been enough minor concessions for love, or mission, or context such that the exceptions now appear to be the rule.
I was prepared for the various open communion practices and contemporary worship. I was not prepared for the circuit that has joint ELCA, Episcopalian circuit meetings. I was not prepared for the pastor who almost left ministry until he felt the energy flowing from his head out through his arm while he was laying hands and healing someone in India.
California is typically a harbinger of what is to come in the cultural. My hope and prayer is that it isn’t the harbinger of things to come for the LCMS.
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