WELS should merge with Osteen in a few years.
At least he does apostasy well.
From Church and Change Headquarters
This month, the Commission on Worship is asking called workers and laypeople alike to start making plans to attend WELS National Conference on Worship, Music, and the Arts held every three years—this year July 19-22 at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.
The first worship conference I attended was in 2008, and I was not disappointed. I came away marveling at the many gifts and talents that God has given to people in our synod [GJ - and many other denominations, including Roman Catholicism]. Those gifts were on display in the inspiring worship services and in the many workshops that were held. Some of us are not very emotional people by nature, but there were times when the beauty of the music and messages left very few dry eyes.
The worship conference is designed to celebrate and encourage our Lutheran liturgical worship heritage—Christ-centered and gospel-proclaiming. But that doesn't mean it will be stale and stodgy. Quite the contrary. Attendees will experience new and fresh musical settings that they will want to take back to their own congregations.
You will be loaded.
Our worship is intoxicating.
Your spirits will be lifted up.
3 comments:
Gustavus Adolphus College. It's an ELCA college! So is St. Olaf's, where they had the last WELS Stale-and-Stodgy-Free Big Getaway. Isn't that what the new chapel at MLC is for?
Virtually dead from the neck up, WELS leaders readily seek out other denominations to copy. What is wrong with simply following the bible?
How can one use the chapel at MLC for a worship conference?! That would be patently ridiculous. I mean what with all of the classes going on 24-7-365&1/4 and such in that glorious edifice of multitasking Christianity...oh, wait. This is happening in July when there are no classes going on? Hmmm...have to rethink that one.
Just went to MLC's webpage and apparently the link to having MLC to host your event does work, so apparently no one in the Committee on Worship (COW) knew they could do that! Gosh there's phone numbers and email addresses and everything.
Oh, but wait, there's no link to reserving something for the Chapel Of The Christ! That must be why COW is not having it there. If the MLC webpage doesn't advertise it, then it must be out of bounds for reservations. Darn it all! And here there was that $8 million spent and everything! Shoot!
Oh well, is there anything available at the pseudo-Christian fake Lutheran college in St. Peter, MN? That's where they have that Christ Chapel right? Not to be confused with a Chapel of the Christ. Golly that is confusing! Maybe that's what happened! COW just thought they were calling up MLC and were booking someplace that had Christ and Chapel in the title and before you knew it, the contract was signed and they were committed to it! That must be it.
And Mankato is just too far from New Ulm and has Bethany which is ELS and since WELS is in fellowship with them, using that chapel and campus is right out of the question I suppose.
Plus Mankato has lots of distractions that some would call convenient like chain motels, department stores and actual restaurants, which can be a distraction indeed compared to lovely St. Peter, which makes New Ulm look like a metropolis in comparison.
So I guess the best choice was made even though it is a school that WELS is not in fellowship with and WELS is not using their costly and controversial new worship facility to host their own WORSHIP conference.
Golly, I'm writing MLC a check right now for maintenance for that Chapel of the Christ because apparently it is not getting used during the summer and might fall into disrepair due to neglect. All those cobwebs in there might become a health hazard.
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