{"id":549,"date":"2009-02-19T21:15:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T04:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/2009\/02\/19\/walking-together-or-moving-apart\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T04:39:57","slug":"walking-together-or-moving-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Walking Together&#8221; or Moving Apart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" title=\"walking together\" src=\"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/walkingtogether-thumb.gif\" alt=\"walking together\" width=\"145\" height=\"175\" align=\"left\" \/> In our winkles as of late, we&#8217;ve been reading through a document entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcms.org\/graphics\/assets\/media\/Communications\/BRTFSSG%20Report%20-%201.pdf\">\u201cCongregation-Synod-Church: A Study Document on Basic Theological Principles Underlying LCMS Structure and Governance<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 This document has 22 \u201cBasic Theological Principles\u201d regarding LCMS structure and governance.\u00a0 When you read them, you might scratch your head.\u00a0 The language in them, while not contradictory to our theology and practice, will cause the reader to ask themselves whether or not this is what we truly \u201cbelieve, teach, and confess.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My biggest question in reading this document is this: Are we \u201cwalking together\u201d or are we moving apart?\u00a0 Granted, this document is intended to be read and studied, discussed, and the like.\u00a0 However, it seems that there might be a push to move away from our polity which has worked for almost the last 162 years (04\/26\/1847).\u00a0 Why fix something that isn\u2019t broken?\u00a0 Or, if it is broken, why has it taken 162 years to fix it?<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope at our synod\u2019s convention in 2010, we will truly be \u201cwalking together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our winkles as of late, we&#8217;ve been reading through a document entitled \u201cCongregation-Synod-Church: A Study Document on Basic Theological Principles Underlying LCMS Structure and Governance\u201d.\u00a0 This document has 22 \u201cBasic Theological Principles\u201d regarding LCMS structure and governance.\u00a0 When you read them, you might scratch your head.\u00a0 The language in them, while not contradictory to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lcms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}