For all you critics of Kari Jobe and her excitements, read this and weep! No confusion at all!
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
We’re very excited about the upcoming youth gathering, GLORYbound, happening in the Texas District November 28-30, 2008. In the past week, however, a number of emails and blogs have been forwarded which have stated that a woman was going to be serving in a pastoral role at GLORYbound. We want to let you know that these rumors are completely untrue. The Texas District upholds the LCMS’ position regarding women as pastors.
Here are the facts: Kari Jobe and her band are leading the music at the gathering but she is not a speaker or presenter. The planning committee asked her and her band to play and sing. Their role is to provide music—more akin to a church organist than a pastor or liturgist. Throughout GLORYbound’s many year history in the Texas District, there have often been musicians who are Christians of another faith tradition. All songs are vetted by the planning team for content. LCMS pastors and church workers lead and supervise every aspect of this gathering. An LCMS pastor is leading and preaching at the Sunday morning service. Another LCMS pastor is one of the speakers. An LCMS Vicar and former DCE is serving as the Bible Study leader. As in past GLORYbound events, there are several other speakers who are not LCMS.
The communion policy of the event has also been questioned in these blogs suggesting that GLORYbound will have open communion. This is also untrue. The communion policy which will appear in the Gathering Book has been used for the last nine years of GLORYbound events as suggested to us by the Secretary of the LCMS when it was requested in 1999: The celebration of the Lord’s Supper on Sunday of GLORYbound will be a significant part of our gathering. St. Paul Lutheran Church, Ft. Worth is serving as host congregation for the Worship Service and Holy Communion. Those who have been instructed in the teachings of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and believe in the real presence (body and blood of Christ is in, with and under the bread and wine for the forgiveness of sins) are invited to come with a penitent heart to receive the sacrament.
The GLORYbound team has carefully planned this event for two years keeping in mind the awesome responsibility of nurturing the faith of young people in the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. They are fine church workers and I thank God for them along with all other professional church workers in our District. In closing, let me encourage each of you to renew your commitment to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to work to advance the saving message of our Savior throughout Texas and the world.
You’re in Christ, Ken Hennings
When Galileo was charged with heresy for teaching the heliocentric Copernican theory of the solar system against the prevailing teaching of the church (not to mention Franz Pieper), according to legend, he recanted under pressure but mumbled “at yet it moves” – calling attention to the fact that simply saying something doesn’t change the reality that one can observe just by looking.
And yet she is a woman pentecostal pastor playing a central role in Lutheran worship.
That sends a message.
Would they allow a wiccan priestess to perform as long as “as songs are vetted by the planning team for content”? How about Paris Hilton or Madonna?
They apparently don’t think it’s that big of a deal to put a woman pastor in front of a microphone and wave her arms about Pentecostal style. And if the music is so generic that it can fit either Pentecostal or Lutheran theology, you know there is nothing about the real presence – which is at the heart of Lutheran worship.
In the words of J. Jonah Jameson: “Crap, crap, megacrap.”
By: Rev. Larry Beane on August 14, 2008
at 7:19 pm
What’s the problem with women preachers. Vicky is a woman preacher at the biggest mega church this side of heaven. If it grows it must have God’s favor. The Lutheran church would do a lot better if they replaced their ugly old preachers with some hot looking young women.
They ought to let the Jobe women preach she probably couldn’t do any worse than the two clowns from the Dallas area.
By: Jay Osteen on August 14, 2008
at 10:34 pm
Answer: He becomes a synodical official.
Question: What happens to an anti-intellectual, theologically superficial pastor with no sense for catholicity and no desire to learn in the parish what he failed to learn at seminary?
By: Jonny Nevin on August 16, 2008
at 5:00 am
What are you thinking by attacking Pres. Hennings. Pres. hennings wrote to you bloggers and you did not talk to him direct. I think it is a childness you confessionals deal with. I think you have a low view of yourselves and you have to attack anything you question. Why don’t you bring him to court and see what that does to the church. Stultus Vir.
scott
By: pastor scott schaller on October 8, 2008
at 10:14 pm
Pastor Scott,
Your sentence construction, punctuation, and language is incomprehensible. Remember, I am on your side. In the future, please don’t drink and blog.
Chuck
By: chuckfinney on April 6, 2009
at 12:32 am