Well, this week flew by quickly. Let’s see. I was assisting minister Sunday. I need a Rick-size cincture. Um, I have to learn a solo for this Sunday. Greeeat. Of course, the director gives me three days, and I can’t read music.
I got my green LBW in the mail yesterday. Been reading Braaten’s Principles of Lutheran Theology (which I bought with the gift certificate from Josh, along with the LBW and a Willimon book) and The Gospel of Baptism by Paul Jungkuntz, a Lutheran, who has made quite a few great insights.
I know I was joking when I said they would do this, but the session at the presbyterian church did schedule the heresy trial during our honeymoon. Heh.
That’s it really.
March 6th, 2004 at 9:24 am
So… the question is… are you going to go?
March 6th, 2004 at 1:38 pm
And the other question that hangs there is :
the session is seriously contending that Lutherans are heretics ?
(worthy of a freakin’ trial sort of heretics ?! )
March 6th, 2004 at 2:08 pm
i wish you luck in finding a rick-sized cincture. i’ve given up on finding an “off-the-shelf” alb that is jen-sized.
i’m also hoping that you’re not flipping a coin over whether to attend the heresy trial or whether to go on your honeymoon.
March 6th, 2004 at 7:31 pm
Re: “Rick-sized cinctures” .
When I was a chalice-bearer and reader in the Reformed Episcopal Church I found my own “David-sized cincture” (a bit on the large size ) from the Concordia catalog. My alb came from Concordia , too .
http://shop.cph.org/Category.pasp?txtCatalog=CPHProduct&txtCategory=Albs+and+Cassocks
I must say that I miss serving at the altar. In the Orthodox parish we attend now it seems like the “altar boys” are just that ; the ones in our parish range between age 5 and age 17 . It’s great to see that range of ages; I just wish they would extend it upwards a bit for us older fellows . I can’t really be a reader anymore , since I am a terrible singer and can’t do the tones for chanting the epistle . Nothing worse than an off-key reader/chanter and I won’t contribute to the noise just for my own vanity.
March 6th, 2004 at 7:46 pm
Speaking of books (and who wouldn’t want to be speaking of books, after all ? ) :
Have you picked up Christian Dogmatics by J.T. Mueller ?
This is the Cliff Notes for Lutheranism , in addition to the Book of Concord , of course .
Some good basic Lutheran stuff listed here:
http://www.discerningreader.com/lutheran.html
Of more recent vintage I would recommend the books of Rev. Harold Senkbeil for basic plain vanilla Lutheranism .
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0570046440/qid%3D953703149/sr%3D1-4/102-1830265-1720103
March 7th, 2004 at 4:37 am
What is the punishment for being found guilty of heresy? And what is the punishment administered to the accuser(s) in the event the accused is found to be not guilty as charged?
March 7th, 2004 at 12:24 pm
So, is anyone going to defend you? or is Rachel required to defend her theology on her own?
I can’t help but think that Rachel is becoming the sacrificial lamb for a group in the PCA that feel like they can’t get to Leithart, Wilkens, Lusk, et al.
March 7th, 2004 at 12:34 pm
Christopher, the “Book of Church Order” reads:
31-9. Every voluntary prosecutor shall be previously warned, that if he fail to show probable cause of the charges, he may himself be censured as a slanderer of the brethren.
March 9th, 2004 at 1:04 pm
“I can’t help but think that Rachel is becoming the sacrificial lamb”
If so, then somebody named her aptly.
Reformed or Lutheran? Maybe Reformed *and* Lutheran — given the confrontation into which Rachel seems to have been thrust. In a certain sense, it reminds me of “Luther vs. RCC” all over again.