Reason 6: Lutheran music 🙃

I am starting my catechesis on becoming Lutheran this Sunday after being a churchless backslider (moved a while back and COVID just crippled my old church). You are one of the big reasons why I decided to look into Lutheranism over Presbyterianism. Others were influential as well as a lot of thought and prayer. Thank you Pastor Cooper.

Would love to see five reasons I am a Christian

Coming from a non Christian background I have explored most main denominations but I find Lutheranism to be the most agreeable. I find it difficult to believe the the dead can intercede for the living, also in other denominations your do not know whether you are saved and whether you have done enough ‘good works’. Similarly the idea of ‘vocation’ spiritualises all aspects of mundane life, something under appreciated and insufficiently recognised by denominations supposedly more ‘spiritual’. I also love the fact that no individual is held in higher regard than another and we are all equal in the struggle. As well as this it retains some tradition liturgy etc giving the best of both worlds really.

I was baptized as a Lutheran as a baby and confirmed as a teenager, but for me it was reading St. Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions" that gave me confidence in my convictions.

Thanks Dr Cooper! I’m transferring from an ELCA church to the LCMS. I feel like I’m returning to the Lutheranism of my youth, the Slovak Zion Synod that was eventually swallowed up by the ELCA

You've pretty much summed it up for me with the first point.  The gospel isn't just the "ticket in the door" to be forgotten for the sake of "law, law, law," like it is in a great deal of evangelicalism (yes, even in some Calvinism).  There's a great deal of truth in the accusation that modern evangelicalism is so works-centered from its overemphasis on law that it really does give the idea at times that one is saved by works in part or whole. Confessional Lutheranism maintains the biblical balance. The gospel continues to be preached and taught for both the saved and the lost.


I love the fact that an unbeliever can walk into a Lutheran church and hear the gospel preached in such a way as to facilitate conversion, while a believer can walk into the same service and be strengthened and taught to grow in faith.

Fellow Lutheran here, my five reasons are just like these, you practically took the thoughts from my head!

As was explained by one of pastors: The Divine Service is the Divine serving us. He in it offers the means of Grace throigh the Word and Sacraments. We respond to Him in thanks for this.

Thank you Pastor. As a Calvinist studying Lutheranism I appreciated how all the beliefs of the Lutheran Church is written down in one book, The Book of Concord, to be studied, confessed and contended upon. These truths have withstood the test of time and heterodoxy. God's peace be with you.

Five reasons why I am happily Lutheran!  Thank you.

Two kingdoms and vocation is what did it for me. It’s such a great framework for Christian living. I also love Lutheranism philosophically, that it’s willing to accept the reality that our rationality is not a starting point to learn divine truths, and accepting what is revealed through the Word of God. It is also truly through the lense of the Gospel, which I didn’t understand before.

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From an evangelical background, I was attracted to Lutheranism because of the distinction of Law and Gospel. It gave me a framework to understand the scriptures. Also, I understood what I'd felt for years; that so many evangelical sermons are just Law, "Try harder, Do better."  I was tired of feeling beat up on every Sunday.

Amen! I'm also very glad to be lutheran. Thanks for the video. God bless.

I'm currently working towards confirmation at an LCMS church, this video is awesome.

I am going to my first Lutheran service next Sunday. I have been looking at which church was closest to biblical understanding. Have friends trying to push me in to Catholicism which I can’t get past the obvious non biblical things they do. So I pray I’m finding my home in the Lutheran church! 🙏🏼

Thank you for Law&Gospel!

I'm Nazarene, but I was converted, baptized, and confirmed Lutheran. Due to a whole bunch of circumstances, I backslide, when I rededicated, it was in a Nazarene church. Now I'm in bible school, studying to be a Nazarene pastor, but the more I think through the scriptures, I find that again and again, I'm coming up Lutheran. Quite a big part of that is the Historical Continuity. I'm not sure quite yet, but I may return to the tradition of my youth.

Honestly, I’m starting to find Lutheranism highly attractive. I have found Orthodox and Baptist to also be attractive, but right now I am leaning towards Lutheranism. I come from a background in the highly heretical Hebrew Roots/Torahism/Messianic Movement, and works of the Old Testament Law were highly focused on for salvation/sanctification, which goes against the teachings of the Apostle Paul! I thank God I came out of that heresy and am now trying to find where I belong in Christendom.