Thanks, Will, those scenes at the beginning of the video were filmed in our chapel here at CPH. The stained glass windows were custom made for it and depict the six chief parts, with one of Christ at the left, and the Luther seal at the right.
If 80% of the LCMS congregations are using LSB, and the LCMS has 2.4 million members, how come we've only got 1 million of these things out? (Not that its a small number)
2.4 million members, but only some 37% in church on any given Sunday. Ergo, 1 million copies is a rather high saturation for 80% of the LCMS's actual worshipping needs.
It's rare for an LCMS church not to have one here, Scott.
And actually, despite my reputation for being a take no prisoners Page 15 type, which I cannot imagine how I got, I've come to regard screens the same as pulpits, altars, sanctuaries, etc -- not opposed per se, but depending on what goes on them.
I imagine had they had them in the proverbial "early church", or if Christianity were starting now, they would have become a standard part of church design much like pulpit canopies, or "testers", did as pre electronic amplifiers.
Then the "liturgical movememnt" could have redicovered them as part of getting us back to the "early church", Vatican II could have included them in the novus ordo along with other things supposedly so restoring us, then LCMS could have reworked its worship to be like the heterodox churches screens right along with multiple lectionaries, service orders, choices within service orders, calendars, etc.
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Thanks, Will, those scenes at the beginning of the video were filmed in our chapel here at CPH. The stained glass windows were custom made for it and depict the six chief parts, with one of Christ at the left, and the Luther seal at the right.
In case anyone wondered.
Te Deum laudamus!
If 80% of the LCMS congregations are using LSB, and the LCMS has 2.4 million members, how come we've only got 1 million of these things out? (Not that its a small number)
6000 congregations; 1 million sold.
So, 4800 congregations have an average of 210 LSBs. Good job.
2.4 million members, but only some 37% in church on any given Sunday. Ergo, 1 million copies is a rather high saturation for 80% of the LCMS's actual worshipping needs.
In the parish I attend, it's in the pews but only used for the hymns the organ rather than the band does.
Everything else is from LSB, but on handout bulletins and the screen.
You could leave out DS II - V and nobody would ever know. DS I is the new "Common Service".
TLH. THE Lutheran Hymnal man.
It's rare for an LCMS church not to have one here, Scott.
And actually, despite my reputation for being a take no prisoners Page 15 type, which I cannot imagine how I got, I've come to regard screens the same as pulpits, altars, sanctuaries, etc -- not opposed per se, but depending on what goes on them.
I imagine had they had them in the proverbial "early church", or if Christianity were starting now, they would have become a standard part of church design much like pulpit canopies, or "testers", did as pre electronic amplifiers.
Then the "liturgical movememnt" could have redicovered them as part of getting us back to the "early church", Vatican II could have included them in the novus ordo along with other things supposedly so restoring us, then LCMS could have reworked its worship to be like the heterodox churches screens right along with multiple lectionaries, service orders, choices within service orders, calendars, etc.
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