![]() It’s a shibboleth, but not a tool to be used, a key for unlocking the scriptures. It gets recited, yes, saluted, as a major “Lutheran insight,” but then ignored (with one exception) when we are shown how to be Lutheran about Bible study. Also at the point where “Law and Gospel” shows up. Well, we read the manual plus Chris’s critique during those 5 Thursday evenings and came to the same conclusion that he did. And what’s so bad about that, Chris showed us, was not that we Lutherans didn’t get our kudos, but that the Gospel suffers, is itself emaciated when we are told such things as: “Lutherans believe in the Bible.” Or again, “The Bible is a means of grace.” Better said, “found it missing,” namely, missing the main ingredients in the Lutheran recipe for reading the Bible. Three weeks ago–in ThTh540–Pastor Chris Repp from across the Mississippi in Illinois had weighed that ELCA manual and found it wanting. The sessions were organized by our local Lutheran School of Theology here in St. The ELCA’s recently published manual to promote Bible reading in the denomination. So let’s shift to that.Įvery Thursday last month–there were five of them–Marie and I joined some 20 folks to read and discuss Even though my natal date this year is a Thursday, it’s not (yet) theology. But this posting is labelled Thursday Theology. My kids keep telling me I should write this stuff down. “OK, Henry,” Ike said, “the rent will be $600 this year.” It was all he had pay the $1000 annual rent. ![]() Later I learned such things as Dad selling hogs for 2 cents a pound at the “yards” in Chicago, bringing the $600 check home to hand over to “Ike” Larson, Swedish bachelor farmer (sic!), who owned our place. I thought everyone wore hand-me-down clothes and lived from the family vegetable garden and fruit-tree orchard. Fact is, I grew up not even knowing there was one. The first birthday of the Great Depression had just passed. ![]() “Farm fresh” that breath was, for I was born in the farmhouse where my Mom and Dad had started their married life the year before. On this date in the year 1930 I took my first breath of fresh air. ![]()
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