Worship, Adiaphora and the Lutheran Confessions, Part 5 – Pr. Will Weedon, 5/6/26 (1262)
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Pr. Will Weedon, Host of “The Word of the Lord Endures Forever”
We Praise You, O God
The Word of the Lord Endures Forever
Celebrating the Saints
Thank, Praise, Serve and Obey
See My Savior’s Hands
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. |
| 0:06.1 | Ha! |
| 0:07.2 | Warts in all, the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod is the best thing going for bold Book of Concord |
| 0:12.1 | Lutheranism. |
| 0:13.4 | Pastor Matt Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, talking about his presentation |
| 0:18.1 | at the 26 issues, et etc., making the case conference. |
| 0:22.4 | The scriptures are actually true. We confess the ancient Catholic faith. We're the truest of |
| 0:28.3 | evangelicals. The gospel alone saves. We are not a sect. God's saving acts are still going on |
| 0:35.0 | in preaching of the word, absolution, baptism, body and blood of Christ, |
| 0:40.0 | all for forgiveness. |
| 0:41.7 | From all this comes peace of conscience, joy, and eternal hope. |
| 0:45.9 | The LCS is a global force, and I'm going to make the case for it. |
| 0:50.6 | You can meet and hear Pastor Matt Harrison, making the Case for the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod |
| 0:55.3 | at this year's Making the Case Conference |
| 0:57.6 | June 12th and 13th at Concordia University Chicago. |
| 1:01.7 | Learn more at Issuesetc.org. |
| 1:04.2 | Musicetc.org Late in the Reformation, the Reformers, and this mostly post-Martin Luther Reformers, |
| 1:21.8 | began to turn their eye toward the other streams of the Reformation and respond to that. |
| 1:29.3 | One of the things that they had to deal with was the whole issue of Adiafra, things that are indifferent, neither commanded |
| 1:34.5 | nor forbidden, and they were very careful to sort their way through what is Adiafra, what isn't, |
| 1:40.9 | and how it is to be dealt with. Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining for part five of our series on worship, Adiophora and the Lutheran Confessions. Pastor Will Whedon, assistant pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hamill, Illinois, formerly served as director of worship for the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate. He's author of the book, Celebrating the Saints. Thank, praise, servant, obey. See my Savior's hands that I remember, a life of Mary. And he hosts the daily 15-minute verse-by-verse Bible study produced by Lutheran Public Radio called The Word of the Lord Endures Forever. Will, welcome back. Hey, thank you, Todd. We're coming to that place in the Lutheran Confessions, the Book of Concord. |
| 2:18.7 | We'll call them the last two documents because they're really twins. |
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