One of the great joys of having a Lutheran school is being able to proclaim the Word of God to the students in chapel every day. This can be a difficult thing to navigate, especially as the age and maturity of the students can range so drastically, even in elementary school!

In secular Greek, at the time of the New Testament, the word ekklessia meant an assembly or a  gathering. In the New Testament it is used a jargon word that for those who are gathered by God as His people. See, in particular, Acts 2:47, 5:11. 7:38, 8:1, and 9:31. We often translate ekklesia into English as “church, but in English the word “church” is more than just people.

As Easter approaches, the crass marketing gets ramped up. We will soon see the embarrassing spectacle of CoWo pastors wearing bunny ears and turning our Lord’s resurrection into something being promoted by the ubiquitous publicity and marketing firm of Fake & Gay.