Transmission

The New York Synod of the Lutheran Church elected a new Bishop this weekend, and I was lucky enough to get to be part of the voting process.  There were a bunch of great candidates, and in the end the winner only won by four votes: 236 to 232.  I can only imagine that it must be tremendously humbling way to begin a term as Bishop.

I have high hopes for this guy.  He mentioned the emerging church in some of his introductory remarks and seems hip to a lot of emerging concepts.  He also seems open to new models of ministry and expressions of church, so I’m hoping we might be able to count on some support from the Lutherans as we continue to evolve as a community.

Like many mainline denominations, the Lutherans are facing a severe drop in attendance and many of the churches in NYC are failing.  Many of the candidates for bishop talked about closing churches and consolidating congregations, which means that the Synod might have some extra real estate on its hands, and there are LOTS of ways I could imagine Transmission putting those to use…

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