Paul Thompson has left a new comment on your post "The Ninth Sunday after Trinity":
Great sermon. I'm in a Missouri Synod Church. Thankfully it is confessional, but many of the members are complacent and fall into the pagan trap. They are not keeping their children away from youth gatherings that are basically rock concerts. Those kids and youth get all hyped up and it's not for Jesus. It's for the opposite sex and all the wrong reasons. I'm not an old traditionalist. I'm only 35, but I've witnessed these things. Thanks again for your sermon.
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GJ - I have visited three rock concerts. One was across the street from us in Canada, so we walked over. It was deafening.
The second and third ones were Soter (Greek for savior), sponsored by LPR in Columbus - Floyd Stolzenburg, Roger Zehms, and Paul Kuske. It was an ecumenical group from various denominations. They pretended to be a Christian group but they just played very loud, very bad music. I noticed the frantic effect it had on the undiscerning audience. I thought the whole concept was a disgrace, which made me the bad guy...again. Their initial concert, if it can be called that, was in the farming community Jenera, and caused great consternation.
Soter's next production of cacophony graced the WELS youth gathering in Columbus, which OSU officials called "the worst-behaved group of kids we have ever had." That fiasco was managed by Stolzenburg, Zehms, and Kuske.
Some WELS pastors went to me about how badly run the entire gathering was, especially the music. I told how I had nothing to say about it.
