The days are surely coming… when Lutherans might give up
celebrating Reformation Sunday because it’s all about us and remembering Martin
Luther and the 95 thesis as a festival liturgy is not as important as embracing
a new covenant where confessing Christ is the common denominator that erases
denominational lines. But the days have not surely come and every brother and
sister teaches the knowledge of the Lord in her or his own way insisting that
compliance to human traditions has divine meaning that is superior to all
others. Now I’m not suggesting that we should not remember the past or
celebrate the gift of our heritage but the days envisioned by Jeremiah can only
come when the knowledge of the Lord unites the least and the greatest in a way
that overcomes our natural tendency to divide and conquer. In the meantime Lutheran’s
will sing “A Mighty Fortress” this Sunday and wear red (like a Lutheran version
of St. Patty’s Day) and claim that grace was a Lutheran invention. Okay I
apologize for that last sentence even if it was fun to write. When Jeremiah’s
vision is fully realized the divisions of the past will disappear into the day
that will surely come where all people will be full of the knowledge of the
Lord and act accordingly.
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