Dennis is, as the kids say, big mad about my last post about liturgy. He responded with a long and bizarre comment that was really more of a blogpost in its own right. Rather than publish his post in its entirety, I would like to focus on his opening paragraph, shared verbatim above. Dennis is a disgruntled former member of an LCMS congregation that he alleges, literally chose pipe organs over missions, and this is one reason why [he] left the LCMS. At any rate, I find his passive-aggressive straw-manning to be typical responses to any and all such opinions that traditional liturgy is superior to contemporary non-liturgy, that traditional liturgy is authentically Lutheran (per the Book of Concord), whereas contemporary non-liturgy is not, and that traditional liturgy is Gods preference as articulated in Scripture, and contemporary non-liturgy - especially given its entertainment-based premises - is not.
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