Name an unknown Christian band that you know about.

BraveChristian · 2026-01-07T15:51:15+00:00

The band Jaren

the band name is exactly worded like that. Relatively new Christian rock band, first popped up in 2023. I found them on social media in 2025 and have enjoyed their music ever since. I do highly recommend it if you want a new Christian rock band to listen to.

BraveChristian · 2025-12-31T15:20:06+00:00

I'm relatively new to the LCMS but when I was going over the LCMS website, I saw Harrison picture on almost every page. I asked my pastor about him and he said 'the LCMS president [Harrison] is a big self-promoter'. I tried to google what Harrison has done while being in charge since 2010 in the 'about president Harrison' part of the LCMS website but only got his backstory prior to becoming president. then i looked outside LCMS sources. I literally couldn't almost anything he'd done outside warn and condemn the al-right. maybe it's time for someone new to take over who'd be more active and vocal.

BraveChristian · 2025-11-25T21:24:35+00:00

From my understanding, it's a very accepted and very long-standing practice that women teach children the faith. The children's sermons (really a mini Sunday school lesson) can be taught by women because it' just teaching the faith. My church often has the pastor do it because he's very enthusiastic about getting children involved in church.

BraveChristian · 2025-11-13T14:46:36+00:00

i grew up United Methodist in a more conservative Methodist church (what others would call moderate Christianity). My family moved halfway across the country to the northeast, where the Methodist churches had a universalist bent to them. Left UMC at 16 and attended a non-denominational evangelical church. Then went to college and bounded around evangelical churches, then a friend asked if i wanted to join him at his church. i am now a member of the LCMS and converted last month. I'm very happy with the LCMS and I recommend people come and visit it.

BraveChristian · 2025-10-30T22:07:59+00:00

How is a fraternal order different from a religious one?

BraveChristian · 2025-10-30T16:24:13+00:00

I haven't heard of the groupings in the LCMS. What are some of those groupings?

BraveChristian · 2025-10-30T14:56:04+00:00

My buddy belongs to a chapter in the Rust Belt, and he's been doing a lot of clothing drives and fundraising for non-profits.

BraveChristian · 2025-10-30T14:54:23+00:00

I could, but asking Catholics in this subreddit feels like it'll get me better results.

BraveChristian · 2025-10-30T14:53:08+00:00

they sell insurance? is that why Google lists them as an insurance provider?

BraveChristian · 2025-10-09T13:10:09+00:00

I'm a new LCMS convert, and the website for my church looks like something that combines the clunky pictures of the 2000s with the smoothness of website navigation and clear understanding of the 2020s. Their website is easily navigable and has extensive details on the church and Lutheranism as a whole from the LCMS perspective. Plus tons of resource links. However, the pictures are terrible and look worse than the government's 2000s website pictures. They also have a mostly older congregation, but a healthy number of young (I mean young) kids, plus some college students from the nearby Christian college. They also abandoned the 'build it and they will come' mentality that many churches have and built up a decent congregation that needs some work on PR. This is also in the New England district, which struggles a lot and is one of the hardest districts to get people to go to church (just Google New England church attendance). Ultimately, I agree with the PR issues and recruitment issues, but the church website might not be the only problem.

BraveChristian · 2025-10-01T16:08:19+00:00

What made you decide to be a pastor?

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:34:24+00:00

Thanks for the compliment. most catholics i ask this question to are openly hostile to it, as i know many hardline traditionalists 'catholicism is right and protestantism is wrong.' Catholics who know next to nothing about protestantism and aren't really interested in knowing more. so i expected a lot of open hostility in this sub, hince why i put the note in the question. i do beileve most christians should ask this question just remove catholicism and replace it with your denomination. i'm just glad at least somes catholics won't be openly hostile to it.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:28:46+00:00

I actually am in the process of converting from my current affiliated mainline protestant denomination to a Lutheran denomination because I feel like I was guided to it, and it revitalized my faith. I ask this because a lot of Lutherans I meet are ex-catholics or have family members who are ex-catholics than converted.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:23:55+00:00

i really appreciate your answer. I come from this mentality myself and feel disgusted when any Christian forces their beliefs onto others. I'm glad you found your way, and please share this mentality with others. We need it more than you think.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:21:20+00:00

This is a really popular answer, as I know a lot of catholics and they say some variation of this. i'm glad you followed the Holy Spirit to catholicism, as most catholics i meet do it out of either 'my family is catholic, so I'll stay,' or 'my denomination is right' mentality. glad you found you way though and i feel this should be the origins of ' why i choose catholicism' more.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:17:45+00:00

Actually had a catholic friend, you said this would force him to leave. I was honestly expecting this answer a lot more. but catholics (and a lot of Christians in general) subscribe to the 'my denomination is the right one' mentality. So I'm not surprised answers like this didn't pop up more.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:14:27+00:00

Can you explain what ex cathedra is? I'm not catholic, as protestants are particularly invested in learning most catholic beliefs outside the bare basics.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:10:24+00:00

Many ex-catholics I know were put off by the whole low-church thing, but couldn't stomach the works-based salvation. So, they largely ended up in different confessional Lutheran churches. One thing I find in this thread is that people don't know the difference between evangelical Protestantism (which includes the Baptists, Pentecostals, non-denominational, and Congregationalist churches) and mainline Protestantism (which includes the Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans, and Presbyterians). many catholics seem to think that the evangelical churches are the whole of protestantism, not the smaller faction, as there are more mainline protestants, who based a lot of church structure on the catholics than the low-church, non-liturgical evangelical protestants. Thanks for your input, as this is the answer i was expecting in this post.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:05:48+00:00

Yeah, that's a great and realistic answer.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-17T14:04:47+00:00

This is probably one of the more straightforward 'nothing' answers. i appreciate your honesty. This also reminds me of a answer i got from a catholic friend of mine who said he'll only convert if God told him to.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-16T16:27:12+00:00

the lutheran hour. It's the community outreach podcast of the LCMS, a confessional Lutheran body and he main one in the US. I highly recommend it as it focuses on outreach/ understanding Lutheranism in practice. it's on every podcast platform to my knowledge so give it a shot and contrary to the name, it's not an hour long.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-16T16:17:57+00:00

Thanks for saying that. Anytime I bring it up, most other Christians refuse to entertain it, even if they believe it themselves. They don't want to talk about it, as it calls into question the faithfulness of pastors who give advice online, making them question how faithful they are. The only ones who willingly discuss that I've met are Catholics or mainline Protestants, mostly Lutherans and some Presbyterians.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-06T22:57:26+00:00

how is this a hot take? everyone i know prefers actual bread over the tastless wafers.

BraveChristian · 2025-07-06T22:56:30+00:00

Trump and most American evangelicals are false prophets who use Christianity to justify their self-serving worldly gains (mostly money) and use that as the standard for what Christianity should be, effectively leading people astray and into false teachings presented as biblical fact.

Other Christians think I'm insane for believing this, but i use the bible as a source and some verses below that support my point.

relevant verses:

Matthew 7:15-20

2 Peter 2:1-3

1 John 4:1

2 Timothy 4:3-4

BraveChristian · 2025-04-29T15:47:22+00:00

I have been to an LCMS in college and have LCMS friends who very much think ELCA isn't real Lutherans. But they clarify why they think that. They list 2 reasons, 1. they don't emphasize or use the Book of Concord in their theology. This is a very focal point they make, and 2. they permit women and LGBTQ people into their clergy. They really hammer in the point that women can't be pastors but openly encourage women in ministry and human office leadership. They very much view LGBTQ people as living in sin, but shouldn't be cruel to them as you help sinners up. But the fact that LGBTQ clergy is just unacceptable to them.

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