Malaise
I’m feeling blah. I’m feeling like America in the late ’70s — I’ve got a Carter-esque malaise going. The weather has something to do with it, I’m sure, because I’m feeling the effects of NW Indiana’s bipolar weather of late (where we went from hot to freezing & back to hot again). My head’s all congested, my sinuses are not happy, and I’ve got the nice headache & chest tickle/cough to boot.
But I’m also in a bit of an intellectual & theological malaise as well, and that’s actually more disconcerting than the weather-induced physical “blahs” to me. I want to blog, but I’m having a difficult time putting any structure on what I’m thinking, particularly regarding things theological. The ongoing turmoil in the LCMS (summaries can be found here, here, and here, as I just don’t feel up to going into detail at this point…) has become almost as wearying as it is profoundly disturbing. The LCMS is sliding headfirst into heterodoxy. Even worse, it would appear that this slide is being purposefully encouraged by the synodical leadership and willingly allowed/followed by the bulk of the synod (i.e., official members & laity).
I can’t really put any more structure on it at this point than to state that I’ve got a really bad feeling about all this. Things are not going to end well for historic Evangelical Lutheranism’s (i.e., Lutheranism as defined by the Book of Concord) representation in/by the LCMS. I’ve said before that I’m a confessionalist and not a synodicalist, and I stand by that even more strongly today. At some point everyone associated with the LCMS is going to have to face up to how this man-made entity has fallen away from orthodoxy (a great summary can be found here…) and either act upon the truth or ignore it & hope it goes away (ala the many good folks who have stayed in association with the ELCA against all evidence that that church body is horrifically heterodox, if not outright apostate.).
I pray for us all, but especially that I may be given the strength & courage to keep my family on the straight & narrow, even if (when!) it means that hard choices be made.
-ghp
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