David Housholder's Journal, a new blog for our list of missionals, emergents, and various old-schools

Here's an approach to evangelical and charismatic life that sounds very 'missional' to me.

David Housholder;  'We believe in the future of planet Earth and God's creation. We believe that the world (which God so loves) is worth investing in. We believe on focusing on calling heaven into earth, not just in getting people to heaven. According to the Lord's prayer, the Kingdom is something that COMES not just a place we "go to."

'We believe that the Lord's message will transform the whole of creation and some day everything will be as it should be. There will be great hardship and tribulation on the path to this, but the church will prevail and be victorious.

'If you believe in your heart of hearts that the church will fail and need to be evacuated, Robinwood church will challenge your thinking.

'We believe in Grace. We do not believe that we can become holy by human striving. We can only become holy by giving control of our lives to Jesus Christ through his Holy Spirit (Romans 8). We accept everyone, since we are all broken, into fellowship. We invite the Lord to take over and make us holy. As Carrie Underwood sings: "Jesus, take the wheel..." Ephesians 2:8-9 are pivotal in this understanding.'

Martin Luther, Lutherans, 

Traditional Marriage, and Children

October 26, 2010 in Lutheran, politics, Theology-Philosophy | Tags: abortion, Birth Control, elca, Fertility, gay marriage, Genesis, LCMS, Lutheran, Marriage, Martin Luther, Natalism, Order of Creation, Ordination of Gays and Lesbians, sexuality,traditional marriage

We US Lutherans are weathering a scathing season of debate on sexuality.

Don’t want to pick that scab and re-kindle the same tired scripts on both sides of the debate.

But I am fascinated by how little mention (during the debate) has been made of Martin Luther’s landmark essay on this very topic.

In German:
Vom ehelichen Leben

English (Click on for Text) Translation:
The Estate of Marriage

Never the legalist, Luther sees (in crushingly potent typically Luther-esque prose) the establishment of marriage in the Genesis order of creation.

Far from being an idle academic treatise, Luther fully intends to re-make Europe around his new non-monastic ideas. His essay is an ideological invasion.

And he succeeded.

You don’t have to read the whole thing; but a few pages will give you the idea.

We have somehow lost the idea of to-be-promoted biologically generative procreation within covenant Adam/Eve marriage families with earthly non-disposability.

We have bought into the myth of overpopulation (i.e. more people is bad), and have embraced the overuse of birth control and abortion (1/3 of conceptions in the US) as corollaries.

Luther is earthy, alive, and strident in his essay. Vintage Marty. Seriously, I dare you to read it, no matter where you stand on things.

Meanwhile, we (and most Mainline Christian groups) are dying out, only to be replaced by more biologically assertive faith families, who actually believe enough in their way of life to see it thrive.

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Lutheran. Expressive, non-legalistic, missional–-but pretty dang Lutheran at the core

Here's an approach to evangelical and charismatic life that sounds very 'missional' to me.

Robinwood Church, Huntington Beach, California
We believe in the future of planet Earth and God's creation. We believe that the world (which God so loves) is worth investing in. We believe on focusing on calling heaven into earth, not just in getting people to heaven. According to the Lord's prayer, the Kingdom is something that COMES not just a place we "go to."

We believe that the Lord's message will transform the whole of creation and some day everything will be as it should be. There will be great hardship and tribulation on the path to this, but the church will prevail and be victorious.

If you believe in your heart of hearts that the church will fail and need to be evacuated, Robinwood church will challenge your thinking.

We believe in Grace. We do not believe that we can become holy by human striving. We can only become holy by giving control of our lives to Jesus Christ through his Holy Spirit(Romans 8). We accept everyone, since we are all broken, into fellowship. We invite the Lord to take over and make us holy. As Carrie Underwood sings: "Jesus, take the wheel..." Ephesians 2:8-9 are pivotal in this understanding.

David Housholder's Journal

Live from the Beach in California  here

''Lutheran. Expressive, non-legalistic, missional–-but pretty dang Lutheran at the core.''

Martin Luther, Lutherans, 

Traditional Marriage, and Children

October 26, 2010 in Lutheran, politics, Theology-Philosophy | Tags: abortion, Birth Control, elca, Fertility, gay marriage, Genesis, LCMS, Lutheran, Marriage, Martin Luther, Natalism, Order of Creation, Ordination of Gays and Lesbians, sexuality,traditional marriage

We US Lutherans are weathering a scathing season of debate on sexuality.

Don’t want to pick that scab and re-kindle the same tired scripts on both sides of the debate.

But I am fascinated by how little mention (during the debate) has been made of Martin Luther’s landmark essay on this very topic.

In German:
Vom ehelichen Leben

English (Click on for Text) Translation:
The Estate of Marriage

Never the legalist, Luther sees (in crushingly potent typically Luther-esque prose) the establishment of marriage in the Genesis order of creation.

Far from being an idle academic treatise, Luther fully intends to re-make Europe around his new non-monastic ideas. His essay is an ideological invasion.

And he succeeded.

You don’t have to read the whole thing; but a few pages will give you the idea.

We have somehow lost the idea of to-be-promoted biologically generative procreation within covenant Adam/Eve marriage families with earthly non-disposability.

We have bought into the myth of overpopulation (i.e. more people is bad), and have embraced the overuse of birth control and abortion (1/3 of conceptions in the US) as corollaries.

Luther is earthy, alive, and strident in his essay. Vintage Marty. Seriously, I dare you to read it, no matter where you stand on things.

Meanwhile, we (and most Mainline Christian groups) are dying out, only to be replaced by more biologically assertive faith families, who actually believe enough in their way of life to see it thrive.

Follow me on Twitter @RobinwoodChurch

Please browse through my other essays on this page. We just crossed 47,000 downloads this week, and pass this link on to everyone in your sphere of influence.Like

One blogger likes this post.