University Lutheran Chapel in Minneapolis is the LCMS campus ministry to the University of Minnesota. It has ministered effectively to generations of college students, quite a few of whom have gone on to seminary and the pastoral ministry due to its influence. My oldest daughter went to the University of Minnesota, and though exposed to some of the worst excesses of left wing postmodernist academia, she graduated battle tested and more firmly grounded in her Christian faith than ever, thanks to her involvement with University Lutheran Chapel. It is theologically conservative, confessional, liturgical, and connects to young people. But maybe that’s the problem.
The Minnesota South District wants to sell the property–which is a church that looks like a church in a prime location just off campus–so that it can take the money and start a different kind of campus ministry, one that follows church growth principles. But do those ever really work with sophisticated college students? It sounds like the approach that actually does work is being thrown out in favor of an approach that may or may not, but which accords more with the theoretical convictions of the mission executives in the district.
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