bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "DP Jackson on Worship - Doing the Work the DPs Won...":
The picture of Choppa! ties in with the lawn mowing bit. I get it.
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Dear Pastors,
We are going to change Sunday worship a bit. To avoid fraud and deception, we will have "Lutheran" on all our church signs. Those who object are free to join a church body with a vague confession or none at all. Several come to mind.
The services in God's House are never aimed at entertainment, and we do not try to enlist new members at them. Therefore, all Seeker Services, Emerging Church models, and similar blasphemies will end immediately. See paragraph one if this displeases you.
The Lutheran worship service is the most Christ-centered and grace-filled of all denominations, for good reason. We believe, teach, and confess the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace.
The historic liturgy is the best way, the only way to express the Means of Grace. Before you start chanting "satis est," I agree that the liturgy can be expressed in various ways. However, anti-liturgy is always expressed in one way. I trust you know the difference.
Voluntary, inexpensive workshops will be held to demonstrate the historic liturgy.
By the way, men, I dress better to mow the lawn than some of you do on Sunday. I suggest that you either dress respectfully on Sunday or get a job that matches your Sunday uniform - mowing lawns.
We are cheating our children and grandchildren if we deprive them of Lutheran hymns. Our services should feature our hymns and help people appreciate the beauty and power of such authors as Gerhardt, Luther, Nicolai, Decius, Selnecker, Jacobs, and many others.
Do you know any non-Lutheran communion hymns? Non-Lutheran hymns for Holy Baptism? Hymns convey our confession of faith, which is why I am alarmed at the silly ditties and CCM garbage being tossed at congregations.
Hymn training needs to continue throughout the year. To support that I encourage you to sell your Fuller training manuals and use the money to buy music for your organist. Give him or her a raise. Recognize all church musicians each year during a service. Jubilate is a good Sunday for that.
In previous years, pastors have been promoted and given new calls for being caught in an affair with a church member. Instead of following that tradition, our jurisdiction is going to help prosecute those fellows.
We will promote and support pastors who are faithful to the Word and the Confessions, diligent in providing a Lutheran service with Lutheran sermons and Lutheran hymns. But, given God's abundant grace in the Means of Grace, it is likely that those who follow the new guidelines will want to enjoy their blessings in one location. This blog may inspire you.
Some of you will need to do some soul-searching, to determine if you are a Lutheran at all. If the answer is no, then it is unwise and dangerous for you to continue to pretend.
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raklatt (http://raklatt.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "DP Jackson on Worship - Doing the Work the DPs Won...":
This post is a great opportunity for the copy-and-pasters among the DP's.
Where you guys now?
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