Be Strong in the Grace: Beckfest: Touching Really Old Things

Monday, August 08, 2005

Beckfest: Touching Really Old Things

One of my favorite Lutheran moms, Mutti Beck, posts on their recent summer trip to Ireland. She writes:

While we were in Ireland, we visited a lot of ancient ruins, like this Baptismal font in Fore Abbey. I would touch the walls and stones of these ancient buildings from the 1100's and 1200's and just basque in awe at the thought "these things are so old". Read on: Beckfest: Touching Really Old Things

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The ELS: Tempest in a Teapot

I found our current church six years ago, after an exhausting, draining and depressing 24 year search for "the perfect church". Coming from the doctrinal sandy ground of American Evangelicalism, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod seemed at first to be paradise. In time, I discovered the how and why of the current state of Lutheranism. I also had to face the realities of synods that sometimes seem to attack one another. An ELS pastor wrote to me these words of encouragement:

"The ELS is a "little" synod, but can be a complicated place! We are basically a miniature version of what the old synodical conference was - Norwegian Synod (ELS), WELS and LCMS born and bred people all attempting to co-exist together as adults.

Basically I want to tell you to take heart. Your synod wants to be faithful to God's Word. Therefore the devil wants to rob us of our treasure and all of divisiveness is the result of his efforts. So you are in the right place. Also, you are in a faithful congregation at your church with faithful pastors. So, ignore the attacks. "