Synodical Inversion

President Kieschnick has weighed in on the Wall Street Journal article about the discontinuation of Issues, Etc. You can read his response here. Pastor David Peterson has written a good piece about this response here. Please read these.

I simply want to add one point to all of this: while President Kieschnick points to unity in the Ablaze™ movement as evidence of our unity, our synod was founded on an entirely different unity: unity in doctrine and worship. Mission work did not have to be unified, but it is precisely here that a congregation could exercise flexibility, depending on its situation. But in our synod today it is exactly the opposite. We are being urged to uniformity in missions (i.e., Ablaze™) and disunity in worship. How sad.

Here is a good article explaining this understanding about the reasons for the founding of our synod.