Monte Meyer

Married, father of two - grandfather to even more. I love fishing, training dogs and trying to grow things in my orchard. Oh yeah, a pastor in the LCMS.

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@JHGoodman8404 It doesn't make it right nor an excuse. Formation in the home was dropping kids off to church. Ugh. We still fight with this idea - but societal reality is helping us make the necessary changes

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@garonnevik We give away Bibles and highlighters at church. We also encourage them bring their own Bibles and use the highlighter during the sermon. I love to see people's colored up Bibles during worship.

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@cjneuendorf I highly doubt that either of those factions were the primary cause of dissent to his candidacy. They are minuscule that only have amplification on SM.

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@Ad_Crucem @lymanstoneky I wonder if you protest the boomers a little bit too much. That has to be a vast vast majority of the LCMS currently. Since we are not really believers in outreach – it could be ultimately our Waterloo.

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@TheLuthInn Liberals? LOL

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@chris_paavola I have resolved to keep my head down and do the work of the evangelist to the best of my ability. I'm 65 - and no one's election to president will substantially change the path of our mission at my congregation.

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@chris_paavola @logos_asarkos Plus - you are missing an opportunity to explain to people who probably WON'T attend your special catechesis class at first. This could be your one opportunity. Hospitality goes a long way.

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@chris_paavola This is terrific Thank you!

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@RuralLutheran Yeah, zero people outside of the one man who is voting in our church said anything about our elections. We just don’t get into politics I guess even in the church.

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@chris_paavola @TheLuthInn I realize now that we are talking past each other quite a bit. Especially when it comes to outreach/evangelism/conversion growth. We are just talking past each other and this is a prime example isn’t it?

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@WmWeedon Seriously –he tags a candidate over his 2nd amendment ideas? Really? And I’m a huge second amendment guy, but I’m not sure how this fits in to the leadership of the LCMS. The Ann Arbor thing is a tragedy and I think Pres H did whatever he could. I have a little problems with that

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@SubstituteS23 @revcjackson @ArtGuy313578051 This makes it even more sad if you think this think outreach is just large group events. We have no inherent sense of sharing our faith with others. So much more to weep.

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@SubstituteS23 @revcjackson @ArtGuy313578051 See that’s where we fall short – connecting to the community doesn’t necessarily mean community events. We don’t even know hardly how to talk to each other about Jesus – is not talked about or not preached about in our churches mostly. that’s my point.

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@andythegrate @WmWeedon @JALindsay4444 I was there – Kieschnick was a church ghost guy. That’s the only reason people didn’t like him. I don’t think he did half the things they’re doing now. His biggest problem for many was that he actually wanted the church to grow.

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@WmWeedon @JALindsay4444 Everybody is politicking - my how times have changed

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@revcjackson @ArtGuy313578051 That’s a symptom for sure. But the problem has to do with us, losing our first love – we tried to maintain the institution and forgot about the mission. And it’s systemic – is how we believe is how we teach is how we act it’s how we do church.

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@revcjackson @ArtGuy313578051 All this analysis misses the main point. Our church body was hardly ever built on connecting to the community with the gospel. We built churches because there were groups of like-minded Lutherans. We didn’t get out and that’s the reason we are failing.

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@toddwilken Sola liturgica?

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@PastorDeberny Amen brother- Amen!!!