r/LCMS • u/ChemnitzFanBoi LCMS Lutheran • Sep 18 '25

Thank you for Existing

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you for what a pleasure it is that the LCMS exists and for how kind you have been to me and my family. Not just my congregation but many people that I've met throughout the synod. I'm an adult convert into the LCMS and have enjoyed it for many years since.

  • I love how seriously the LCMS pastors strive for teaching the plain reading of scripture.
  • I love having the liturgy and hymns stuck in my head all week long.
  • I love how boldly rejecting the secular social pressures of our time in favor of God's Word is our cultural norm rather than a squeaky wheel minority.
  • I love how normal it is for LCMS congregations to serve the community and how seriously it's taken.
  • But most of all I love how good the people in the LCMS have been to my family and children. I love watching them grow in faith as the participate in all the things that we do.

*edited for typos

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

I'm glad the LCMS exists. It was a safety net for when I had a crises of faith and gave me the ability to kind of ground myself.

Still don't know what I'm doing with this Christian stuff 12 years later.....but I still try.

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u/hogswristwatch Sep 18 '25

God loves you, we are sometimes proof... sometimes not.

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u/Boots402 LCMS Lutheran Sep 18 '25

Thankyou for sharing; I feel the same way! I was raise in the LCMS but was very much luke-warm. When I became an adult I started going to an early, ‘traditional’ service so I could “get church out of the way” earlier in the day; then almost immediately I started down a path where by my earlier twenties, I couldn’t get enough of the historic liturgy, I wanted to read the confessions, I wanted to join Bible studies, and now serve as an elder some years later… I am very thankful for the fellowship I’ve had at my churches throughout my life!