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Date: January 27th, 2009 10:58 pm (UTC) |
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I was reading the Catechism the other night and I came cross the text below......(Luther's introduction near the back of the book.)
“First, the pastor should most carefully avoid teaching the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the sacraments, etc., according to various texts and differing forms. Let him adopt one version, stay with it, and from one year to the next keep using it unchanged. Young and inexperienced persons must be taught a single fixed form or they will easily become confused, and the result will be that all previous effort and labor will be lost. There should be no change, even though one may wish to improve the text.”
I found the whole introduction very interesting (here is a link to the LCMS PDF version http://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/LCMS/smallcatechism.pdf )
So you can read the whole unedited text.
The question that that I have is this week to week our Brief Order of Confession and Forgiveness Changes, perhaps this is to make people think about what they are saying. But is this what Luther intended to happen, the short answer is no. My original internal argument was that we are not changing the creed etc. this is only the Brief Order of Confession and Forgiveness so these rules don't apply. But isn't this one of the Sacraments? If it is the change from week to week would be contrary to the way Luther wanted his learning to happen. I just thought I would point out that you are doing your service wrong.
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