Rev. Tucher

No one can say that the life of a pastor is slow or boring.  Let’s go through it day by day.

Sunday: 2 services that I preached at, Confirmation class that evening
Monday: day off
Tuesday: Funeral
Wednesday: Lenten midweek service that I preached at, Midweek school
Thursday: All day in office, funeral home visitation
Friday: Funeral service in Gillette, committal service in South Dakota (approx. 2 hours away), wedding that I’m not involved in
Saturday: Spending the day in Rapid City to recharge and relax
Sunday: Lather, rinse, repeat

Keep in mind, this isn’t the normal week of a pastor, but this goes to show how hectic and busy a week can be.  I’m sure that next week, there won’t be anything going on so it’ll be slow and boring.  That’s ok with me.

I posted about this just a little while ago. It seems that now she has been charged with murder.

When I returned to the church after lunch, the secretary told me of a minister’s wife who had confessed of killing her husband. I was shocked! I had not heard that until then.

The wife of a minister found dead in the church parsonage has confessed to shooting him and fleeing to Alabama, where she was found the following night with their three young daughters, authorities said Friday. Mary Winkler told investigators she shot her husband on Wednesday, Selmer Police investigator Roger Rickman said.

I could not believe the story when I read it. Being a minister’s wife, I’m sure she would know a little about what it is her husband preaches and teaches to his congregation. I’m sure that one thing he would teach would be the Fifth Commandment: “You shall not murder.”

Last week in my high school Midweek class, we talked about communion.  I figured that this would be an open and shut discussion.  Communion in an LC-MS church: good; communion outside of an LC-MS congregation: bad.  However, that was not the case.  They said that communion at an ELCA church is ok, as it is at an Episcopalian congregation. 

What they failed to realize is that in communion, there is both a vertical and a horizontal aspect to communion.  The vertical aspect is that between God and man.  They saw that aspect, but it was the horizontal aspect they didn’t understand and/or agree with.  The horizontal aspect is that between man and man.  When you come to the Lord’s Table, you confess that you are in theological agreement with those around you.  Since we are not in theological agreement with he ELCA or the Episcopalians, we cannot commune at their altars, nor could they commune at ours.

After the discussion, I was concerned about their understanding of the Lord’s Supper.  Last night, we read a couple of small phamplets concerning communion:  What About The Sacrament of the Altar and What About Fellowship in the Lord’s Supper.  They seemed to have a more Lutheran understanding of it after we finished our discussion.

Well, this is a new beginning. This blog will contain events going on in the church where I serve as the Assistant Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church, in Gillette, Wyoming. It will also contain various links to other Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod blogs and news.