The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Lutheran Practice of Absolution of Sins

Great thoughts.

In our church, which holds to the 1689 LBC, we often proclaim both the forgiveness of the sins of believers, and also the condemnation awaiting those who die in their sins, but are very careful also to both proclaim the Gospel very regularly, and also to point out how it differs from the many "gospels" of the world.

I'd love to see it done more in the larger evangelical church, but we have the problem there of lots of "easy believism" and decisional regeneration and antinomianism and more, and I think it very important to teach sound theology so that people understand the scope of the promises of God on one hand, and His warnings on the other.