I live in an area where Lutherans are not one of the majority faiths. Evangelism is a huge challenge. I live south of the Bible Belt in the New Orleans area dominated by Roman Catholicism. That said, we are a gumbo bowl, and we do have a mix of other traditions as well - including the whole span of Evangelical Christianity

But when it comes to the Word of Institution, CoWo celebrants sometimes do monkey with the words. They change this or that, or try to make it sound spontaneous. Why they do this with the Sacrament but not the Word is beyond me. It suggests that they hold the Word with more reverence than the Sacrament.

How many times have you heard this sentence: “We should not argue over adiaphora”? However, that’s exactly what we should be arguing over. For if we’re arguing over things that are not adiaphora, we have bigger problems.