{"id":5922,"date":"2010-07-20T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2010-07-20T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:30:18","slug":"revolution-in-the-lcms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/07\/revolution-in-the-lcms\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution in the LCMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I am thrilled at the election of Matt Harrison as the new president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. As I followed with great difficulty, being overseas, the convention, and saw that the incumbent\u2019s restructuring proposals were passing, I had assumed that his re-election was a sure thing. Instead, Rev. Harrison won and won big.<\/p>\n

This is a milestone for the LCMS and world Lutheranism. Rev. Harrison is confessional and conservative, yes. But he is also a gifted and (dare I say) charismatic leader. He is a pastor, a scholar, an author, and a proven administrator of a complex organization. As head of Lutheran World Relief and Human Care, he did a brilliant job bringing help to those in need, from the victims of Hurricane Katrina to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. He has a heart. He upholds Mercy. In answer to questions on that open post, Rev. Harrison has been the pastor of a largely African-American congregation. He started innovative programs to help the people of his community and his neighborhood. He is also well-known and well-respected in global circles and will be a persuasive advocate for confessional teaching in world Lutheranism. I believe he will be unusually effective in his office.<\/p>\n

\nNot only did the convention elect Rev. Harrison, but virtually every other office also went to a confessional candidate. Including ALL of the five vice-presidents! As Mollie Hemingway points out, the new leaders of the LCMS have either been guests on \u201cIssues, Etc.\u201d or could be guests on that radio show that had been cancelled by the previous administration. (The producer, Jeff Schwarz, was even elected as the lay representative to the Council for Theology and Church Relations!) She is calling this synodical turn-around the Issues, Etc. revolution<\/a>.\n

I am not saying that these new leaders will be able to solve all of the problems in the Missouri Synod. But they will set a new tone. And they will make a difference. There will be a new norm.\u201d And instead of that being church growth, megachurch, culture-war, American-style evangelicalism, that norm will be distinctively, yet attractively, Lutheran.<\/p>\n

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