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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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The Thinking Fellows continue discussing the issue of a Lutheran identity crisis. This week, they deal with the moniker: confessional. They define confessional and explain why it is essential to Lutheranism. They also cover how the term has been used within specific movements in American Lutheranism, particularly the LCMS, to bludgeon people over a reasonable disagreement. Overall, Lutherans must subscribe to the Lutheran Confessions and thus be confessional, but it is not necessary to be involved in the gatekeeping that "confessional" movements can participate in today.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. |
0:22.7 | My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Adam Francisco, Bruce Hillman, and my father, Scott Keith. |
0:29.0 | Last episode when I introduced the show, I slipped and said podcasts. |
0:32.7 | And it turns out I was right. |
0:33.9 | Like that was a vision of the future given to me by the Holy Spirit because we are in part |
0:38.4 | two. |
0:38.6 | Wow. |
0:41.4 | I've read some portions of which just went charismatic. |
0:44.6 | Wait, are you guys going to test that? |
0:46.1 | I mean, I set that for me? |
0:46.9 | I just, it makes me nervous. |
0:48.5 | That's the spirits. |
0:51.1 | But, okay, maybe not given by the Holy Spirit. |
0:53.3 | But certainly a vision of the future because we are |
0:56.7 | in episode two part two of a series now i guess it is a micro series on a Lutheran identity |
1:04.6 | crisis which it turns out uh apparently there is now we spent um the last episode introducing the problem introducing some |
1:14.1 | terms or identities like confessional missional um i think i put evangelical and catholic in there |
1:23.0 | we focused on the definition of missional and then some positives and some negatives, some |
1:30.6 | critiques. |
1:31.6 | I think I might have somehow I ended up getting the most vocal on the critique side, but I'm |
1:37.0 | didn't have to. |
1:38.1 | I'm going to take all the heat, which I guess is good for once instead of you or Adam. |
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