ANOTHER SIDE OF WORSHIP
Garrison Keillor spins another tale: “Larry the Sad Boy… was saved twelve times in the Lutheran church, an all-time record. Between 1953 and 1961 he threw himself weeping and contrite on God’s throne of grace on twelve separate occasions — and this in a Lutheran church that wasn’t evangelical, had no altar call, no organist playing “Just as I Am Without One Plea” while a choir hummed and a guy with shiny hair took hold of your heartstrings and played you like a cheap guitar — This is the Lutheran church, not a bunch of hillbillies — These are Scandinavians, and they repent in the same way that they sin: discreetly, tastefully, at the proper time… Twelve times! Even we fundamentalists got tired of him… God did not mean for us to feel guilt all our lives. There comes a point when you should dry your tears and join the building committee and start grappling with the problems of the…
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