Gottesblog

Gleaning, learning, and implementing “Best Practices” is not a bad thing in and of itself. It is a common approach to getting things done and leadership in the world of business, of project management, and in organizational leadership. What makes a practice “best” is that it leads to some kind of measurable better outcome.

I recently heard a talk by an LCMS presenter… mention in a talk that in our current day and age, Christians “no longer have a place at the table,” and he said that we should thank God for that. His remark was cheered.

Sometimes we advocates of traditional liturgy are stereotyped as not liking any contemporary music. Often amid histrionics and eye-rolling, we are told that unless something was written in the 1500s, we don’t like it.

In a discussion about Screens vs. Hymnals, a man from a certain age demographic commented:

Through a felicitous turn of events, I stumbled onto the writings of the Rev. A.W. Tozer (1897-1963), a self-taught Pietistic Fundamentalist Baptist who was critical of the Evangelical Church of his own time for being too insular, cut off from church history, and who saw worship as entertainment.