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Posted At: 12:57am by Bloghardt
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In the name of Jesus. Amen. Got the blues? The post-DTBL blues? You came down
from the mountain and now it's all sadness?
Actually, "The Mountain Top Experience" is not the 2006 conference theme (grin).
The theme for 2006 is "The Feast." What a gift! A whole week to revel and
rejoice in the Lord's Supper! Now that's the Gospel!
But is it dangerous having these yearly conferences? Does it teach the us that
Lutheranism is a mountain-top experience? That we have this good teaching,
Divine Service, and preaching and then it's back to the hum-drum of every day
life. Then gone is the beautiful chapel and we return to the same old Divine
Service in our little parishes. Is that how things are?
How utterly backward! Can we have too much Jesus, especially at HT? Too much
Scriptures? Too much good preaching? In the desert of this world, where we are
dying daily - how could you possibly have too much Christ crucified put into
you?
I want my kids to be dipped in the Gospel, have Jesus dripping from their
foreheads, down their ears, into their mouths. More Jesus - on the mountain top
or in the valley! In St. Louis, or Colorado, and especially in the place He
normally does the dipping for my kids - in Conroe, TX.
At DTBL, Jesus came to us in the Word, just as He comes to us every Sunday. He
came to us in Holy Absolution, just as He does in our little parishes. He came
to us in the Sacrament, just as He does every Sunday in the Feast.
As beautiful as that was in St. Louis, it was just a picture of what He does
every Sunday at your little church. He takes words and puts them into your ears.
He takes water and washes your sins away. He takes bread and wine and puts into
your mouth the salvation He won on Mount Calvary.
Every Sunday, as wonderful as the HT Choir was, they are out done by the angels
and archangels and all the company who laud and magnify His glory! Every Sunday...
Mount Zion comes to earth and breaks into our world. Every Sunday, hidden to all
and without the pomp and circumstance of a conference, Jesus delivers Himself to
us in His gifts. Isn't that just the way of the Gospel? Down to earth, ordinary, and everyday.
Mountain Top? Nope! If you think that was great, just wait to see what the Lord
has for you this Sunday - His gifts given for you in the particular place that
He has given to you for the delivery of His gifts.
CYA at "the Feast" in 2006! Until then, "Lord, give us this bread always!" (John
6:34). In the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Posted On: July 26th, 2005 at 7:10pm by TripletTwo |
Ditto what T3 said!!! I'm going to print that and save it for future reference!
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