Five Reasons I Am Lutheran

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  @paulsteger1620 · 1 year ago

  Reason 6: Lutheran music 🙃

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  @RollingTidePod · 3 years ago

  I am starting my catechesis on becoming Lutheran this Sunday after being a churchless backslider (moved a while back and COVID just crippled my old church). You are one of the big reasons why I decided to look into Lutheranism over Presbyterianism. Others were influential as well as a lot of thought and prayer. Thank you Pastor Cooper.

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  @user-cz8gi2om3n · 2 years ago

  I was baptized as a Lutheran as a baby and confirmed as a teenager, but for me it was reading St. Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions" that gave me confidence in my convictions.

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• OU

  @Outrider74 · 6 years ago

  You&apos;ve pretty much summed it up for me with the first point. &nbsp;The gospel isn&apos;t just the &quot;ticket in the door&quot; to be forgotten for the sake of &quot;law, law, law,&quot; like it is in a great deal of evangelicalism (yes, even in some Calvinism). &nbsp;There&apos;s a great deal of truth in the accusation that modern evangelicalism is so works-centered from its overemphasis on law that it really does give the idea at times that one is saved by works in part or whole. Confessional Lutheranism maintains the biblical balance. The gospel continues to be preached and taught for both the saved and the lost.<br><br><br>I love the fact that an unbeliever can walk into a Lutheran church and hear the gospel preached in such a way as to facilitate conversion, while a believer can walk into the same service and be strengthened and taught to grow in faith.

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  @MrGieschen · 2 years ago

  As was explained by one of pastors: The Divine Service is the Divine serving us. He in it offers the means of Grace throigh the Word and Sacraments. We respond to Him in thanks for this.

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• TR

  @triggerwarningtruthjustfor5433 · 6 years ago

  Coming from a non Christian background I have explored most main denominations but I find Lutheranism to be the most agreeable. I find it difficult to believe the the dead can intercede for the living, also in other denominations your do not know whether you are saved and whether you have done enough ‘good works’. Similarly the idea of ‘vocation’ spiritualises all aspects of mundane life, something under appreciated and insufficiently recognised by denominations supposedly more ‘spiritual’. I also love the fact that no individual is held in higher regard than another and we are all equal in the struggle. As well as this it retains some tradition liturgy etc giving the best of both worlds really.

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  @donaldjacobson4184 · 5 years ago

  Thanks Dr Cooper! I’m transferring from an ELCA church to the LCMS. I feel like I’m returning to the Lutheranism of my youth, the Slovak Zion Synod that was eventually swallowed up by the ELCA

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  @lc-mschristian5717 · 6 years ago

  Thank you Pastor. As a Calvinist studying Lutheranism I appreciated how all the beliefs of the Lutheran Church is written down in one book, The Book of Concord, to be studied, confessed and contended upon. These truths have withstood the test of time and heterodoxy. God&apos;s peace be with you.

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• JO

  @joshbluhm250 · 3 years ago

  Fellow Lutheran here, my five reasons are just like these, you practically took the thoughts from my head!

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• SW

  @swm1700 · 6 years ago

  Five reasons why I am happily Lutheran! &nbsp;Thank you.

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• EL

  @eliasg.2427 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Amen! I&apos;m also very glad to be lutheran. Thanks for the video. God bless.

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  @harleywykes4971 · 6 years ago

  Would love to see five reasons I am a Christian

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