Last week I spent three days in Madison, Wisconsin and then this week three days in St. Louis, Missouri. You know that I was very cold in both of those places and I was very glad that it got back up to 66 yesterday. So I am glad to be home!
The first trip was to hear how the LCMS may restructure to try and work more efficiently. There were about 200 people from the LCMS there and we had a lot of discussion over the three days. I heard people talking about all kinds of things that they did not want to change! We have been losing members every year in the LCMS for the last 50 years! I think that it might be time to think about CHANGE!
The St. Louis trip was for a Theological discussion of Worship in our church body. There was about 350 people there for the discussion and every table that I was a part of talked about how we are going to promote the Traditional Liturgy and Worship style and how bad contemporary worship is. The one thing that they all seemed to agree with was that we should try to avoid any kind of CHANGE!
That is the real reason that I am glad to be home, not the weather, but the climate at Holy Cross. We live in a climate of CHANGE. We look for ways to change, we strive to find new ways to worship and new ways to serve. We strive to find new ways to show people that a life lived with Christ is better than a life lived with out Him! Stay tuned as we march through the new doors that our Lord opens each day.
Paul
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