AELLP & Dealing with Congregational Antagonists
Contention & confrontation is an unfortunate reality within any congregation. I know that it, or the threat of it, is at mine. Oddly enough, given my oft-times hyperbolic & polemical style, I hate confrontation. It’s one of the things that I really find difficult about being involved at a board/leadership level.
The latest offering from the Alliance of Evangelical Lutheran Laypeople (AELLP) provides a nice macro-level look at dealing with congregational antagonism, in the appropriately titled article, Dealing with Congregational Antagonists:
“The LC-MS is experiencing its own crisis at the Synodical level with those at the highest levels compromising, in the guise of tolerance and societal acceptance, many of the doctrines that Lutherans throughout the centuries have held to be true; such as closed communion, for only one example. Because of this, there is continual friction between those who want to change the practices of the Synod and those who believe that to compromise these doctrines is tantamount to betraying Christ.”
It’s definitely worth a closer read, and it’s also made available in handy PDF & newsletter/bulletin-ready formats.
-ghp
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