I began this blog at the beginning of this year. When I began it I knew, unlike other personal blogs, that it would be limited in time. I knew this because it was for a very limited purpose: to look together at what the Lutheran Confessions "say" about issues that still arise in The Church today. So I was going to eventually run out of material (sooner rather than later) because I was focusing not on fine distinctions in The Confessions themselves, but on their relevancy to specific issues that are actually on the table (whether they ought to be or not) in our culture and in The Church. I think I have done that, and I am grateful to all those who took the time to read my selections from The Lutheran Confessions along with my commentary on them and application to today.
I am leaving the blog up even though it is not active. I hope it will remain a resource for those who care what is written in The Lutheran Confessions that make up a significant portion of our self-definition as Lutherans. (There is a "denominational quiz" running around Facebook that "places" us in denominations. Not surprisingly, I did not find the "lutheran" characterization of doctrines very Lutheran at all.)
From time to time a particular issue may catch my attention that I feel warrants a post, and I will do so and let you know on Facebook that I have done so to give you the opportunity to reflect with me on the position of the text of the Lutheran Confessions.
Thank you again and God bless you in your reflections and your following and your serving.
I did not want to close my blog without a quote from The Lutheran Confessions. So I close with this from the final words of The Lutheran Confessions, the conclusion of The Formula of Concord.
"Therefore, in the presence of God and of all Christendom, among both our contemporaries and our posterity, we wish to have testified that the present explanation of all the foregoing controverted articles here explained, and none other, is our teaching, belief, and confession, in which by God's grace we shall appear with intrepid hearts before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ and for which we shall give an account."
