Necessary Roughness

Pastor May, now that you’re back…would you like help setting up a blog?

U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) gets the House to apologize for racism, but the group he wanted to join employs that same racism.

What would it take to have “faith in these words”? I would think you’d have to know something about the God you were dealing with and what he has done for us, you’d have to know what forgiveness is, and you’d have to know what sins are.

I do think the girls are going to have that down long before the customary admission to the Lord’s Table in 8th grade. Both children recite the Lord’s Prayer. The older one can recite the Apostle’s Creed, the younger with help. The older one can rattle off the first nine of the Ten Commandments; she has a little problem with manservants, maidservants, oxen, donkeys, and everything that is her neighbor’s.

I was in a not-too-unfamiliar position, representing the minority opinion in a discussion. I had no expectations of winning, and there’s always a danger of being labeled an obstructionist.

So why speak?

Rebekah at the Concordia Sisters of Perpetual Parturition lists some cool suggestions for four sets of church members in her post, Table of Duties. There are a couple of things I particularly liked.