Lutheran Theology in Practice
March 18th 9:30am - 11:30am
Mark your calendars for this opportunity to talk with colleagues about real-life scenarios that pastors and LMAs navigate. Facilitated by Pastor Megan Hoewisch
Lutheran Theology in Practice: The Large Catechism and Case Studies on Baptism and Holy Communion
Description: If you run out of wine in the middle of communion, do you speak the Words of Institution over the hastily filled cups the assistant carries out? If someone brings you water from the Jordan River and wants to be baptized with that, what do you say? If a twelve-year-old asks to be baptized without her parents' permission, do you do it? And for each of these questions: why? What is the theology that informs our choices when it comes to the day-to-day details of baptisms and communion? In this class, we'll think about Luther's Large Catechism writings on Baptism and Holy Communion and what Luther might be saying to us as we wrestle with different scenarios and questions about these sacraments. After an overview of justification by faith and the Large Catechism, we'll discuss several case studies related to the sacraments. Pastors, LMAs, and anyone interested in the theology that undergirds our sacramental worship (or, why we do things the way we do) are welcome!
Pastor Megan Hoewisch has been serving in her first call as pastor of First Lutheran Church in Havre, MT for five years. Before that, she studied at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, where she met her husband Matt. In November 2024, Pastor Megan took part in the Lutheran World Federation's Seminar for Pastors in Wittenberg, Germany, and this class is a way of bringing back to Montana some of what she received. Schnitzel not included!