2053. Responding to Dr. Gerald Kieschnick on the Decline of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod – Pr. Larry Peters, 7/23/24

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

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Pr. Larry Peters of Grace Lutheran-Clarksville, TN Rounding Up the Usual Suspects

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0:00.0	Is good theology like a pendulum or a plumb line?
0:04.0	In the latest issues etc journal, I recount how I reacted to the errors of
0:08.6	evangelicalism rather than returned to the plumb line of God's word.
0:13.0	We'll send it to you for free.
0:14.4	Just click the red journal subscription button
0:16.4	in the right-hand column at issues ETC.org
0:19.6	In the Wittenburg Trail feature,
0:21.1	Felix Locke writes about his journey from Alliance on Sincerity and Knowledge. The The statistic that really grabbed me is that the number of congregations out of
0:37.2	5,76 the number of churches that had 99 or fewer people in church every Sunday was, it increased from 2,629 in
0:51.2	0 to 2,2629 to 4,291 in 2022.
1:00.0	So when you sum that whole thing up 4,291 is 75% of the 5,76. So 75% of the 75% of the 75% of the 75% of the churches and our denomination have fewer than 100 people in
1:21.4	worship every Sunday.
1:24.0	That's an excerpt from a lead time interview with Dr.
1:27.4	Gerald Kishnik, past president of the Lutheran Church in Missouri Senate.
1:31.4	Everyone agrees that the Lutheran Church in Missouri Synod, everyone agrees that the Lutheran Church in Missouri
1:33.8	Senate is in decline demographically. Is it only the demographics? Everyone agrees
1:38.3	that the demographics are against us, so to speak, as they are against almost all denominations. So why is it in decline?
1:47.6	Is it because we treasure the historic liturgy? Is it because we have a heart for the traditional worship of the
1:56.6	church? Is it because we don't ordain women or because we practice closed
2:02.1	communion? It's because we're two Lutheran in our
2:05.2	doctrine and practice. Joining us to talk about this recent interview with Dr.
2:10.5	Gerald Kishnik on the decline of the Lutheran Church
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