As pastors, we have all been there. We're reviewing the Small Catechism with the Adult Bible Class, and you get to the Fifth Chief part on Confession, and someone says, "when did they add this to the catechism? Isn't it a little Catholic?" Our episode today takes up what happened through the lens of Paul H.D. Lang. Lang gave a paper at a district pastors' conference covering the topic "The Exodus of the Practice of Private Confession in the Lutheran Church." Mark Braden (pastor of Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, Detroit, MI, and Departmental Editor for Gottesdienst: the Journal of Lutheran Liturgy) walks us through the document and expands on some of the themes contained within it. 

You can download the paper from the CTSFW media site HERE.  

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