Chrysostom on Distribution of the Lord’s Supper

These things I say to you that receive, and to you that minister. For it is necessary to address myself to you also, that you may with much care distribute the gifts there. There is no small punishment for you, if being conscious of any wickedness in any man, you allow him to partake of [...]

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Pro-OW Fundamentalists

There are those in the LCMS (a small minority, perhaps) who continue to advocate the ordination of women into the Office of the Holy Ministry. Perhaps it’s time. After all, we have no proof-text that can be shown to irrefutably say, “Thou shalt not ordain women to the pastoral office.” I guess [...]

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Nothing New Under the Sun

Benjamin Kurtz, a member of the General Synod of Lutherans in the 19th century, wrote in 1859:
If we are permitted to judge from what appears in the Alt-Lutheraner and the Lehre und Wehre, we [the General Synod] would be constrained to believe that they [Missouri Synod and others] can find or see Christ nowhere but [...]

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A Different Supper

This is issued as a friendly warning to our brothers and sisters in the ELCA and to those in the LCMS who would have no problem communing with them or allowing them to commune with us.
We might ask, Do they not believe the same thing as us? Do they not confess the real, physical [...]

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