These are turbulent times, it seems. One can see echoes of this divide here in Latvia too, imported from America mostly.
I wonder if, should this develop in an unfortunate manner, several other pressing controversies (such as the national question) will get pulled into the fray?
Faithful churches have been leaving - mine did in 2019 after many years of trying to address our concerns through conventions and basically being dismissed/ignored.
We are now an independent Lutheran church that is a member of ULMA, an association of independent confessional Lutheran churches that pools funds for mission work and operates a seminary.
I pray that the faithful remnant in 'Missouri' are preparing for the reality it may be GOD's will for LCMS, LCC, WELS, et al. to finally have their lamps removed from their place of prominence on the Lampstand, as happened to the Church of Jerusalem. The future of orthodox, confessing Lutheran heritage in North America may well be the LCMS's English-Iowa-Dakota-Wyoming districts + the AALC. GOD's gracious providence for the establishing of Luther Classical College may be the mark that GOD is signaling this.
Also: beware of the bevy of adjectives being formed from nouns using the '-al' suffix, e.g. "Reformational", "Confessional", "Biblical", "Missional", "Liturgical", etc. In English syntax, the '-al' suffix indicates a "likeness" or "relation" to the noun, which preserves a certain degree of connection to the identity indicated by the noun (usually for branding/communication purposes), but does NOT necessarily indicate faithful adherence to what that noun fully represents.
By contrast, traditional Anglican bodies that broke from the wayward episcopal denominations & communions do not use '-al' to suffix their identifiers, they use '-ing' to indicate ongoing faithfulness to the heritage of the Reformations; e.g. 'Continuing Anglicans', 'Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans'.
Faithful churches have been leaving - mine did in 2019 after many years of trying to address our concerns through conventions and basically being dismissed/ignored.
We are now an independent Lutheran church that is a member of ULMA, an association of independent confessional Lutheran churches that pool funds for mission work and operate a seminary.
These are turbulent times, it seems. One can see echoes of this divide here in Latvia too, imported from America mostly.
I wonder if, should this develop in an unfortunate manner, several other pressing controversies (such as the national question) will get pulled into the fray?
Another concern is that these elements may take over to the extent that the faithful have to leave.
Faithful churches have been leaving - mine did in 2019 after many years of trying to address our concerns through conventions and basically being dismissed/ignored.
We are now an independent Lutheran church that is a member of ULMA, an association of independent confessional Lutheran churches that pools funds for mission work and operates a seminary.
https://www.trinityaustin.com/independent
http://unitedlutheranmission.org/
I pray that the faithful remnant in 'Missouri' are preparing for the reality it may be GOD's will for LCMS, LCC, WELS, et al. to finally have their lamps removed from their place of prominence on the Lampstand, as happened to the Church of Jerusalem. The future of orthodox, confessing Lutheran heritage in North America may well be the LCMS's English-Iowa-Dakota-Wyoming districts + the AALC. GOD's gracious providence for the establishing of Luther Classical College may be the mark that GOD is signaling this.
Also: beware of the bevy of adjectives being formed from nouns using the '-al' suffix, e.g. "Reformational", "Confessional", "Biblical", "Missional", "Liturgical", etc. In English syntax, the '-al' suffix indicates a "likeness" or "relation" to the noun, which preserves a certain degree of connection to the identity indicated by the noun (usually for branding/communication purposes), but does NOT necessarily indicate faithful adherence to what that noun fully represents.
By contrast, traditional Anglican bodies that broke from the wayward episcopal denominations & communions do not use '-al' to suffix their identifiers, they use '-ing' to indicate ongoing faithfulness to the heritage of the Reformations; e.g. 'Continuing Anglicans', 'Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans'.
Faithful churches have been leaving - mine did in 2019 after many years of trying to address our concerns through conventions and basically being dismissed/ignored.
We are now an independent Lutheran church that is a member of ULMA, an association of independent confessional Lutheran churches that pool funds for mission work and operate a seminary.
https://www.trinityaustin.com/independent
http://unitedlutheranmission.org/
I pray that we in Missouri are able to hold the line and continue to move (albeit slowly) in the right direction. Deo Velente!