SEPA: Christmas Humbug!

Last night was Christmas Eve and the doors to our church were locked by the Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

O Holy Night! Love and Joy Come to You. Let earth receive her King. Noble words were being sung in other SEPA Lutheran sanctuaries.

We gathered around the soup pot as we so often do at Redeemer. (Still)

The ladies of Redeemer once supported our ministry with monthly soup sales. A rich beef vegetable soup was produced in Redeemer’s kitchen which we were renovating so we could cook more soup.

Redeemer lives as long as those soup recipes live. Last night I enjoyed Lutheran soup for 25th Christmas Eve.

On 21 of those Christmas Eves, we also went to church.

God and sinners reconciled.

We’ll gather again this morning for Christmas breakfast. But not in our church.

We’ll be back in church on Christmas Eve when the hymns people sing actually mean something.

Meanwhile, I suggested we change the name of the soup. Lutheran Soup just doesn’t sound good anymore.

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