"Yes the church should be inclusive. Christ spent time with tax collectors and prostitutes, but it was they who went away changed, not Christ.”
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Lutheran impastor explaining The Great Comission is fake and is a tool of opression and racism
"I deliberately did not read the great commission, and indeed, I doubt that I will ever again read it...and publicly claim it as the gospel."
9 April 1945
German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the night before he was hanged by the Nazis, said: 'This is the end - - for me the beginning' -- his last recorded words.
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Martin Luther on doctrine:
Doctrine belongs to God, not us; and we are called only as its ministers. Therefore we cannot give up or change one dot of it (Matt. 5:18).
AE 27: 37
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In the Lutheran world, women’s ordination is practiced nearly everywhere except for
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churches. This theological innovation has proven to be a source of terrible division in the church and is to be much regretted.
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What have I changed my mind on? Women in the office of holy ministry. In 2009 I was ambivalent. Subsequent study of Sacred Scripture has led me to believe that this is a first order theological concern that must be opposed for the sake of faithfulness.
Martin Luther, dedication of Torgau Castle Church in 1544: "the purpose of this new house (church) may be such that nothing else ever happen in it except that our dear Lord himself may speak to us through his holy Word and we respond to him through prayer and praise."
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Good stuff from LCMS. What I like about this article beyond its faithfulness, is that it’s rooted in reality. To many church leaders have no idea what time it is and what is happening:
A reminder that Reformation Day remains a civic holiday in the German states of Brandenburg, Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia. 🇩🇪
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On December 10, 1520, Martin Luther banned a copy of the bull Exsurge Domine in front of the Elstertor in Wittenberg. In addition, editions of canon law were thrown into the fire. A symbolic event that should not be underestimated.
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Christ, our risen Lord, Your resurrection showed us what we will someday be and what we already are now through our Baptism into Your holy name. Give us courage to bear in our bodies Your resurrected life as we live out the fruit of Your victory over death…
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Muhlenberg on Anglicans: (they are our) “nearest and best friends and well-wishers. Their doctrines are more closely allied to ours than those of any other denomination in the wide world.”
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1638 Swedes landing in what would later be known as Delaware. “We plant this flag here in the name of Queen Christina of Sweden and in hope of bringing the Lutheran faith to the new world.” 🇸🇪
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Churches should try not to transfer Ascension Day to Sunday. In order to build strong counter cultural communities of Faith we need to be gathering more often for the Divine Service and not less.
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The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What benefits does Baptism give?
It works forgiveness of sins, rescues from death and the devil, and gives eternal salvation to all who believe this, as the words and promises of God declare.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Jacobi, Bornhöved in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Consecrated in 1149AD. Foundations of a Baptismal Chapel were dated to 980AD.
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Lutheran twitter is all about denominations. Which one do you belong to? In IRL 2024 no one in your neighborhood cares. Why? Because the people in your neighborhood do not even know Jesus. It is that basic now. Go make disciples of Jesus. Hold firm to the Confessions. SDG.
Therefore faith is a constant gaze that looks at nothing except Christ, the Victor over sin and death and the Dispenser of righteousness, salvation and eternal life.
Martin Luther on Galatians 1535 AE 26: 356
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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God’s Word, I know that I am walking in His way
Martin Luther
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"Therefore faith is a constant gaze that looks at nothing except Christ, the Victor over sin and death and the Dispenser of righteousness, salvation and eternal life."
Martin Luther, Galatians, 1535 AE 26: 356.
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On today's date - May 4th, 1521
Traveling home from the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther is taken into protective custody by order of German ruler Frederick the Wise & held at Wartburg, where he grew a beard & lived as "Junker Jörg" & also translated the complete Bible into German.
According to District President Stuckwisch 55 LCMS congregations requested pastors this year and were told there were no candidates to send. Pray for more faithful preachers.
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Avoid posting pictures with the ashes on your forehead. The ashes are a sign of penitence, humility, and our mortality and not an invitation for ‘likes’ or comments. It goes against the Gospel for the day which warns against acts of piety for the sake of public approval.
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God’s Word, but testify to it…trust the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity-Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his seminary students at Finkenwalde
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If you are a preacher of the Gospel do not preach as though you could gain all men for Christ, for not all heed the Gospel (Rom 10:16) but if you convert three or four souls and lead them to Christ, like the tips of burning brands (Amos 4:11) give thanks." Martin Luther AE 15:124
Bo Giertz had some great advice for reading Scripture:
"Underline heavily everything about what our Savior has done for us. And if you like, write ‘For me’ in the margin."
That's the Lutheran way. Christ, for you. HT
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The 1654 marriage planned by the Russian Czar for his daughter with Count Woldemar, son of the Danish🇩🇰 king came to nothing because as a Lutheran the Count refused to be rebaptized by the Orthodox Church. Stand Firm Lutherans.
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Hold the line like Martin Niemöller. Imprisoned for 7 years, mainly in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps for his opposition to National Socialism and that ideology’s infiltration into the church of Jesus Christ.
James Nestigen: What does it mean to be a confessional church? It’s to have everything else put in its place for a single purpose: the continuing declaration of that Word which became flesh in Christ Jesus who was put to death and was raised again for our justification.
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Reading over a paper I wrote in seminary over a decade ago as a Methodist candidate, "If I am ever ordained to holy orders..." I never thought it would be in The Lutheran Church.
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