The Message Needs a Messenger

On June 5, 1983, at Christ Chapel on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN a record 20 candidates were ordained to the Pastoral Office of Word and Sacrament in the Minnesota Synod of the former LCA, the Lutheran Church in America. We were certainly admonished to faithfully proclaim the Gospel Message just as it had been faithfully handed down and entrusted to us. And I don’t recall how much was said about what kind of reception our message might receive, but certainly the dismal picture painted for Ezekiel was not what I remember…