“Ch-Ch-Changes”

Find it anywhere and everywhere, there is now officially, approved-by-voters, honest-to-goodness change in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

First, the Synod’s Constitution was fundamentally changed the past few days at the Convention. Why and how and what exactly I’ll have to report later; much of it involves elections, terms, boards and committees and so forth. There may be fundamental changes to districts in the near future as well. President Kieschnick fought long and hard for these changes to be implemented, and many of them make sense.

Second, the nearly the entire Presidium was voted out of office. We now have President Matthew Harrison,1st VP Herb Mueller (former conservative District President of Southern Illinois); 2nd VP John Wohlrabe; 3rd VP Paul Maier; 4th VP Daniel Preus (former conservative 1st VP in the first Kieschnick administration); and 5th VP Scott Murray (a conservative high church pastor in Houston). Whew!

What does this mean? It does not mean much, frankly. We are still a horribly divided body of believers, as I posted yesterday, and as Pr. Brown posted today. But as Brown notes, hopefully it will mean substantial and real discussions on our differences and what they mean and, maybe, possibly, prayerfully, a way to reconcile, or amicably split.

Now, just for fun:

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