#lutheran — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lutheran, aggregated by home.social.
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Steven Ozmet's work on the Swiss Reformation helps to make a good deal of sense of why Calvin's Two Kingdoms theology has a weaker distinction than Luther's. (Calvin did learn the hard way the challenges of integrating church and governance, incidentally.)
#ChristianNationalism #TwoKingdoms #Polity #Reformed #Lutheran #Switzerland
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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