An odd-bin appendix to 374 overtures revealing the longest, the shortest, the most Greek, the most gloomy, the most likely to have been written by a chatbot, and much more.
I didn't think it was possible, but you have made the convention workbook entertaining. Well done! I'm looking forward to your analysis of the convention resolutions after they have been pasteurized and homogenized by the floor committees. Great work!
I just want to know, and I don't expect much, what are the chances that these will be corrected:
- open communion (any time visitors are not properly advised and allowed to commune, possibly to their harm)
- creating division in congregations by having overall teaching different between the normal service and the casual service in the same church. The teaching is different because the songs used in the casual service omit the strong doctrinal instruction present in TLH and LSB hymns, substituting repetition and emphasis of subjective feelings, thus adulterating the content of the service
- creating chaos, division and feminized and unstable decision-making by allowing women and 18+ children to oppose their own husband and father in voters, and allowing the head of house to tacitly delegate that responsibility to them by not attending. The 1969 doctrinal change (denied as such) allowed female suffrage as long as it did not exercise authority over a man, but at the same time church constitutions designated the voter assembly as the supreme authority of the congregation. That authority was and is exercised over the call, the excommunication and every other aspect of congregational life, so it was hypocritical on its face.
Do an analysis of the overtures that are the biggest waste of convention time. I'm sure that is difficult given the number of overtures that are either nothing more than reiterated virtue signalling or calls for studies that won't be completed for years at which time they will surely be out of date and not to mention utterly lacking in any meaningful conclusions.
I didn't think it was possible, but you have made the convention workbook entertaining. Well done! I'm looking forward to your analysis of the convention resolutions after they have been pasteurized and homogenized by the floor committees. Great work!
Thank you!
I just want to know, and I don't expect much, what are the chances that these will be corrected:
- open communion (any time visitors are not properly advised and allowed to commune, possibly to their harm)
- creating division in congregations by having overall teaching different between the normal service and the casual service in the same church. The teaching is different because the songs used in the casual service omit the strong doctrinal instruction present in TLH and LSB hymns, substituting repetition and emphasis of subjective feelings, thus adulterating the content of the service
- creating chaos, division and feminized and unstable decision-making by allowing women and 18+ children to oppose their own husband and father in voters, and allowing the head of house to tacitly delegate that responsibility to them by not attending. The 1969 doctrinal change (denied as such) allowed female suffrage as long as it did not exercise authority over a man, but at the same time church constitutions designated the voter assembly as the supreme authority of the congregation. That authority was and is exercised over the call, the excommunication and every other aspect of congregational life, so it was hypocritical on its face.
Do an analysis of the overtures that are the biggest waste of convention time. I'm sure that is difficult given the number of overtures that are either nothing more than reiterated virtue signalling or calls for studies that won't be completed for years at which time they will surely be out of date and not to mention utterly lacking in any meaningful conclusions.
A reader brought to our attention a misfire that mixed 10-4 with a different overture. That has been repaired.