#lutheran — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lutheran, aggregated by home.social.
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David Chytraeus, the Lutheran theologian, reads 1 John with unnerving clarity: to refuse love is already a kind of death. Christ’s self-giving redefines what life looks like, and when we seal our hearts against need, we quietly deny that love lives in us at all. Love, then, must become concrete—truth taking flesh in action.
How can you show love?
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Johann Albrecht Bengel was a #Lutheran pastor who published a Greek New Testament. Here he comments on the Second Greatest Commandment (Matt 22:39). He speaks of a three way relationship between the reader, God, and himself. The mutual love of God to neighbor reinforces and sets an example for love between neighbors. It eliminates selfishness.
Try reading this aloud quickly.
How can you view a neighbor as truly loved?
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Revere Franklin Weidner, a #Lutheran seminary president, considers pew rents, in light of James 2:3. The sad distinctions of common life must not be reinforced in the house of God. Give strangers the best seats!
Is he attacking the church for a social agenda, or he is simply obeying the word of God?
How can you make congregational life easier for poor members?
#christian #lordhavemercy #politicalagenda #gobekind #jesusisking
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On this Christmas Day, here’s a heart-warming story of a Scrooge repenting of sins, from the diary of a Christian Frederick Schwartz, a missionary to India.
What would the world and church look like if our gospel proclamation came alongside this witness? Can the gospel really ever be independent of such witness and fruit?
#christian #christmas #scrooge #disasterrelief #ecclesiology #scriptures #wwjd #lutheran