“Dennis” is, as the kids say, “big mad” about my last post about liturgy. He responded with a long and bizarre comment that was really more of a blogpost in its own right. Rather than publish his post in its entirety, I would like to focus on his opening paragraph, shared verbatim above. “Dennis” is a disgruntled former member of an LCMS congregation that he alleges, “literally chose pipe organs over missions,” and this is “one reason why [he] left the LCMS.”
At any rate, I find his passive-aggressive straw-manning to be typical responses to any and all such opinions that traditional liturgy is superior to contemporary non-liturgy, that traditional liturgy is authentically Lutheran (per the Book of Concord), whereas contemporary non-liturgy is not, and that traditional liturgy is God’s preference as articulated in Scripture, and contemporary non-liturgy - especially given its entertainment-based premises - is not.