The Augsburg1530 campaign plan

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Brandon Booth

We need your help! Here’s what to do.

1: Get the word out.
Tell as many people as you can about the synod’s sudden decision to cancel “Issues, Etc.” Email, call, text, all your friends and tell them to visit Augsburg1530.wordpress.com and get involved.

2: Join our email campaign.
 Click here to email key LCMS leadership and ask why “Issues, Etc.” was canceled.

3. Attend our Evening Prayer service and bratwurst dinner.
We will be holding a special service and dinner on April 13th at 5pm at Emmaus Ev. Lutheran Church in Saint Louis. Please REGISTER if you plan to attend. If possible, please plan to stay overnight for a possible event the next day.

4. Get Connected.
 Subscribe to our RSS feed and join our Yahoo Group so we can contact you via email with what you can do next

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Recent email to LCMS Leadership »

9 Responses to “The Augsburg1530 campaign plan”

  1. Anastasia Theodoridis, on March 26th, 2008 at Said:

    AUGUST?????

    This this a typo? Did somebody mean April?

  2. Brandon Booth, on March 26th, 2008 at Said:

    Thanks! I fixed it!

  3. Rebecca Mayes, on March 27th, 2008 at Said:

    Are there other ways we can volunteer to help with organizing the Vespers and dinner? If so, who do we contact? I’m in St. Louis and would love to help organize housing for those coming from out of town. Have someone contact me if they need assistance.
    Rebecca Mayes
    rbmayes@gmail.com

  4. DB Cummings, on March 27th, 2008 at Said:

    At my site, http://www.prochristo.com, I respond to the cancellation of Issues, Etc. as a Presbyterian. If you find this useful, feel free to use it in whatever manner you wish.

  5. Barbara Sullivan, on March 27th, 2008 at Said:

    Do you need donations to help defray the dinner expenses? If so, please let us know where we can make that contribution.

  6. Recent letter from David Strand « Augsburg1530, on March 27th, 2008 at Said:

    [...] Get involved! • Read our campaign plan [...]

  7. Rev. Joel A. Brondos, on March 29th, 2008 at Said:

    As a member of the LCMS’s Board for Communication Services in the past triennium, who had to fend off previous actions against Issues, Etc. while the BCS was still in the hands of confessional Lutherans, I’d like to thank you for your efforts.

    Additionally, I’d like people to know that there are others involved in the Issues, Etc. debacle. People ought to investigate to what degree the station manager, Dennis Storz, and the program director, Chuck Rathert, were involved in this. The members of the BCS were continually stone-walled in our requests for accurate statistics from Mr. Storz and inaccurate/incomplete listener statistics were given by Chuck Rathert.

    After all, where do you think Mr. Strand is getting his information?

    There are still things which need to be done as you are doing — and that includes looking at the big picture in which the Issues, Etc. firings occurred. Dr. Kieschnick is at the forefront of all those in the LCMS who maintain that pure doctrine gets in the way of missions and evangelism. It also includes further exposes of the current chairman of the BCS, the President’s representative to the BCS and others.

    While keeping a clear focus on the Issues, Etc. injustices, we also need to hold members of synod accountable to their position with regard to Ablaze! and Fanning the Flame which stand in antithesis to Issues, Etc. One (perhaps inept) analysis can be found at my blog “Kyrie Eleison” blogstuhl.blogspot.com

  8. Sarah_pc, on March 30th, 2008 at Said:

    Hello all,

    I was excited to hear that someone is actively trying to unite everyone concerned with the cancellation of Issues, Etc. Right now, we have been successful in making enough noise to get us a little publicity. However, there is a bigger picture we need to consider.

    Many of us recognize that the cancellation of Issues, Etc is likely a small piece of the bigger political issue in synod that has troubled us all since Kieschnick gained the presidency.

    Here’s where we really need to unify…at the conventions.

    1. We need to inform members of our congregations what has happened with Issues, Etc. This especially includes our grandparents and the older members of the church. Many don’t have the same familiarity with new internet technology as we do, so they don’t have a clue what has happened. I’ve been showing individuals David Strand’s official statement followed by the Wall Street Journal’s article by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway.

    2. We need the support of the congregational elders and delegets who attend the conventions. Also, we want to be in contact with people like Mollie Ziegler Hemingway and persons educated in synodical politics.

    If the church layity come together as one voice, we have the best chance of stopping the church growth movement in the Missouri Synod. The very same church growth movement that doesn’t seem to like an open forum for discussing theological issues.

    This is a big battle to undertake, but we’re the voice that pastors and layity have been waiting for. Let’s keep the momentum going.

    In Christ’s love,
    Sarah

  9. jim, on March 31st, 2008 at Said:

    shouldn’t the billboard say “happened”, not “Happend” (Vanna, I’s like to buy an “E”)?

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