Being Lutheran

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Throw out all those notions you might have about what it means to be Lutheran.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>When it comes down to it being Lutheran is really very simple. It's about following Jesus. We go where Jesus goes we listen when Jesus speaks we trust when Jesus promises. And we live because Jesus lives.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><span></span>From the Foreword</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Pastor Sutton treats not only Lutheran beliefs but he also treats the attitudes and mindsets that those beliefs inform. Thus he divides his book into two parts: what Lutherans challenge (being closed lukewarm confused lazy and 'pastel') followed by what Lutherans cherish (the new the ordinary the unresolved purpose and the local). This helps explain the quirks of Lutherans-why they are so doctrinally rigorous yet so fond of paradoxes and unresolved doctrinal tensions; why they seem both conservative and radical; how their theological strictness manifests itself in a spirit of freedom; how they can make such strong supernatural claims while also focusing on the much-neglected spiritual significance of what is ordinary-while also accounting for what we could describe as the Lutheran theological culture.</span></p>