Church yesterday was good. I was preoccupied with other events last night... but my day was good.
A visiting Lutheran bishop spoke to our congregation about the Lutheran denomination. We are considering/ being considered (I think) to go from being independent to part of the Lutheran church, officially, at some point. There were a lot of questions raised (it was sort of a Q&A), that really reflected a wide range of theological perspectives of our members. The bishop was nice, well spoken, and interesting. He wore his collar, which some of our congregation finds intimidating for valid reasons and/ or they don’t like the hierarchical symbolism...it was interesting that he didn’t seem to take offense whatsoever to one person’s comment about not usually being comfortable with that (which is partly why they like this community the way it is). He handled her concern by explaining in a very easy going way, why it was his personal choice and usually the choice (but not always) for Lutheran clergy on Sundays, to wear a collar or robe.
He talked about Grace being the underpinning (paraphrasing) of Lutheran theology.
We had lunch. I sat with my home group and discussed the topics raised, some more. I wonder what direction it’ll go from here. Everyone seemed satisfied so far.
A visiting Lutheran bishop spoke to our congregation about the Lutheran denomination. We are considering/ being considered (I think) to go from being independent to part of the Lutheran church, officially, at some point. There were a lot of questions raised (it was sort of a Q&A), that really reflected a wide range of theological perspectives of our members. The bishop was nice, well spoken, and interesting. He wore his collar, which some of our congregation finds intimidating for valid reasons and/ or they don’t like the hierarchical symbolism...it was interesting that he didn’t seem to take offense whatsoever to one person’s comment about not usually being comfortable with that (which is partly why they like this community the way it is). He handled her concern by explaining in a very easy going way, why it was his personal choice and usually the choice (but not always) for Lutheran clergy on Sundays, to wear a collar or robe.
He talked about Grace being the underpinning (paraphrasing) of Lutheran theology.
We had lunch. I sat with my home group and discussed the topics raised, some more. I wonder what direction it’ll go from here. Everyone seemed satisfied so far.
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