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Here We Stand

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      We are Lutherans — this is not something we hide. Neither do we hide the problems in our church body (in fact, we highlight them on this very podcast). However, that we recognize there are problems does not mean that we intend to leave. We remember our Confirmation Oath and we take it seriously:

      Do you intend to continue steadfast in this confession and Church and to suffer all, even death, rather than fall away from it?

      We each answered “Yes.” to this question, at different times and in different congregations, but in the same Synod and in the same faith. We intend to remain steadfast to the end, come what may. Our Lutheran forebears have suffered much through the centuries for the truth of God’s Word — persecution by pope and emperor, the Thirty Years’ War (including the siege and sack of Magdeburg), suspicion and hostility from the State, the abiding interest of Satan and his minions, et cetera —, and we will follow in their footsteps if God wills it.

      It is our firm conviction that Lutheranism is the correct teaching of God’s truth. In this episode, we (briefly) cover our reasons for becoming and remaining Lutheran, and we make clear that we are not going anywhere. We will fight for our Synod, because she is worth defending.

      “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

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      0:00.0

      I'm I'm Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.4

      And I'm Woe.

      0:43.3

      Today on Stone Quire, Corey and I are going to be talking about why we are Lutheran.

      0:48.8

      This is kind of a midpoint and an arc of discussions have been going on for months now.

      0:54.3

      And there's been a lot of controversy recently about the large catechism this week.

      1:01.0

      There have been controversies about communion, about girls' teaching in the church.

      1:06.7

      And we are frequently some of the first voices speaking up about those issues inside Lutheranism.

      1:12.3

      And so a number of people have asked or said, you know, either asked, so why are you Lutheran, when are you leaving, or just said you need to join us or you need to go somewhere else or stupid Lutherans.

      1:24.2

      You never should have stopped being Roman Catholic in the first place.

      1:26.8

      So we wanted to take this opportunity to kind of step back from the noise and the arguments

      1:32.1

      and make the positive case for why we care about the doctrine that we hold and why we're

      1:38.4

      members of the churches that we are. It's a fair question. You know, Lutheranism is a small thing today.

      1:46.1

      There are historical reasons for that and their theological reasons, but I would hope that someone who's listening to us would recognize that being the largest and the most popular, particularly when you're talking about something that vitally connects to truth doesn't necessarily

      2:04.0

      mean that it's right. And in fact, it may well be that the biggest most popular thing is crappy.

      2:09.8

      You know, small, amazing restaurants have better, healthier food than McDonald's.

      2:15.2

      And sometimes they don't even cost that much more. So being big and

      2:19.3

      popular doesn't mean you're right, and being small and unpopular doesn't mean you're wrong.

      2:24.8

      The blessing that Christians have is that we have been given by God a standard of determining what is

      2:30.8

      true and what is false doctrine, and that is scripture. And so we've talked a bit in the past about the history of Lutheranism.

      2:37.0

      We're not going to talk about that today.

      2:39.0

      We're not going to talk too much about specific doctrines,

      2:41.0

      but we're going to show a couple just as examples of contrast

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