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As the sign of the cross is made, the minister says: "_____, child of God, you have been sealed by the Holy Spirit and marked with the cross of Christ forever" (ELW, page 231). At the invocation in orders for confession and forgiveness in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship , Lutheran Book of Worship, With One Voice, Libro de Liturgia y Cantico ...
It's funny, because my husband was Catholic, yet he doesn't cross himself. However, I was raised lutheran, and our daughter and I cross ourselves. There are only a couple people that I've noticed who cross themselves at church. It seems that so many people are either nervous about "standing out" or are afraid of "looking too Catholic".
Just be glad that we still have a cross at all in the Lutheran Church. Many American Evangelicals don't have them in their church. The reasoning is that it might offend those who come to the church for the first time. I say if the cross offends that is good and it should offend us as we are the reason he hung on one to begin with. •••
The Holy Cross Day has been given three other names. These names are Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Triumph of the Cross, and Holy Rood Day. The holiday is mostly known as the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. What is Holy Cross Day in Christianity? Holy Cross Day is a holiday celebrating the discovery of the true cross.
It seems that major impetus for the Rosicrucian "movement" came out the Lutheran world. Even the symbol of the Rose Cross is closly connected with the personal seal of Martin Luther. Johannes Valentinus Andeae a popular Luthern theologian with Pietist sympathies is generally accepted as the...
As I've come back to faith as nondescript protestant, I really have taken a lot of positive influence from conservative Anglicans and confessional Lutherans. Both traditions seems to be represent a more conservative reformational attitude towards the errors of the Roman Catholics than some in...
First off, He gave the promise of a Savior in the book of Genesis and those who had faith (a trust) in that promise were saved. Jesus came and died on the cross in our substitute, for he was the perfect lamb. Baptism gives us the benefits earned at the cross, such as the washing away of our sins and clothing ourselves in Christ's righteousness.
I'm Lutheran because it's the closest to what the Bible teaches concerning Christianity. Lutherans teach that salvation is 100% God's work and I haven't come across any other denomination who can claim that without adding on any other terms, whether it's you must accept Christ into your heart, surrender yourself, make a decision for Christ, etc...
I grew up Missouri Synod Lutheran and as an acolyte and then as an elder (deacon for practical purposes), I was taught to bow before entering and after leaving the sanctuary. As an Greek Orthodox reader and chanter, it is customary to bow or at least cross yourself before entering the nave (the main part of the church) as well as anytime ...
Mark Wegener has a book "Rituals of Redemption" (Fairway Press, 1992), a series of sermons he preached at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, MN (a very high liturgical church) on the meaning of the rituals and liturgy of the church. He has a great chapter on "Baptism and the Sign of the Cross" •••