What do we [Lutherans] stand for?
What do Christians stand for? Far too often we have been labeled according to what we stand against. While it is necessary to reject error and falsehood, there is far more that we are FOR. The Lord Jesus has not placed us in this world merely to shake our fingers at it, but rather to point that world directly to Him. The attempt has been made with title such as "pro-life", and "pro-marriage". However, we can go much further than that. The content of the Christian faith is an articulation of what "we believe, teach, and confess", not merely what we hate, fear and loathe. We stand for the Holy Trinity. In times past the Trinity could be assumed in the United States whenever one used the word "God". Certainly "Jesus" was seen as a reference to the Second Person of the Trinity. Today, with the rise of Mormonism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and generic New Age spirituality this is no longer the ...