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Do-It-Yourself: the Lay-Mass in the LCMS

The Coronavirus phenomenon has exposed some serious flaws that plague our Missouri Synod. Fortunately, the advocates of Lay-Mass in the home are outliers, and certainly don’t seem to be the norm. Nevertheless, there is clearly a problem of theological education that is in need to being addressed in our midst - not to mention the ever-present issue of church discipline in the context of a democratic, congregationally autonomous polity.

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Let It Be According to His Word

When it seems impossible to believe that you are His child, that He loves you, that He has forgiven you, and that He will never leave you nor forsake you, “Let it be according to His Word!” When it feels like the entire world is against you — and even when the whole wide world really is against you: “Let it be according to His Word!” When you are painfully aware of how small and frail and helpless you are: “Let it be according to His Word!” When the Cross lies heavy upon you, when you are able to see and feel nothing else but pain and heartache and sadness, and when you are reduced to lowliness and nothingness: “Let it be according to His Word!”

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Proclaim a Solemn Assembly

“Blow a trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, weep between the porch and the Altar, and let them say, ‘Spare Your people, O Lord, and do not make Your inheritance a reproach, a byword among the nations’" (Joel 2).

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