Throwback Thursday: Battle of the Hymn Parodies
Note: This was published on October 17, 2022. — Ed.
In the late 1990s, a hymn parody was written to mock the LCMS. Of course, we can laugh at ourselves and our foibles. But this is not the case with the promotion of false doctrine.
Also in the late 1990s, I was a layman in my young thirties in the Florida-Georgia District - which at the time was in open rebellion against closed communion by means of an adopted 1997 district convention resolution called “A Declaration of Eucharistic Understanding and Practice” (DEUP) - which was aptly acronymned if you sound it out. You can read about it here. Anyway, a big confab to rally the troops to the unbiblical practice was arranged. I naively went to one of their dog and pony shows - and as one would expect, dogs and ponies produce a plethora of excrement.