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have a synod, for only by joining individual congregations together can the entire task that the Lord has given the Church be carried out, It follows from the circumstances in which the Church exists here in this world that this inner need, in the course of time, will necessarily manifest itself through the planned cooperation between individual congregations. For if God’s commands concerning the preservation of the Word, concerning the maintenance of the pastoral office, and concerning the qualifications of those who are to be put into this office are to be followed…if the command Christ has given concerning the preaching of the Gospel to all nations is to be carried out, if the need that love feels to help other suffering Christians, poor congregations, orphaned children, and lonely old people is to be filled, then it is self-evident that the individual congregation would not be able to carry it all out… But if it, then, is a necessary consequence of faith and love that the inner unity of the Church manifest itself in external cooperation, how can this be done in a proper and Godpleasing way? Plainly, only by joining together into one body and by adopting certain rules for cooperation. 243 Koren, wary of the past abuses of state church in Norway, also insists that the areas of labor between congregation and synod need to be clearly defined. The synod does together what the congregations cannot do individually, namely: worker training, publishing, and charitable institutions. Koren insists that the synod’s authority in these areas gives it no right to interfere with the rights of the local congregation. What about the doctrine of the ministry? Did the early Norwegian fathers have a narrow view that the pastor is the only divinely ordained form of the public ministry? One of the early controversies in the Norwegian Synod was over lay-preaching. Laypreaching was the ear-mark of the pietistic revival of Hans Hauge and his disciple in 243 U.V. Koren, “The Right Principles of Church Government” http://www.blts.edu/essays/korenUV/Right%20Principles%20of%20Church%20Government.pdf. (Accessed December 23, 2009), 10-11. 128
America, Elling Eielsen. Eielsen in particular was the bitter enemy of ordained clergy. When Johannes Dietrichson, the first Norwegian pastor in America, asked Eielsen to cease his religious activity, Eielsen grabbed the beard of Dietrichson and exclaimed, “Hear me, you pope, I wish to be your pestilence while yet I may.” 244 In the state church, actions like Eielsen were dealt with by the secular government, since in that system, such preaching without a call was literally illegal. But in America, where no such system existed, the Norwegian Synod properly appealed to Scripture. All believers were rightly considered priests before God. But no priest had the right to assume any authority over the other unless he was regularly called. Koren correctly comments on Article V of the Augsburg Confession, There is no reference in this article to the work of the public ministry, by which the office of the word is to be performed in the congregation by certain persons who have been called to it. That is discussed later in the 14 th article. Here the reference is to the essence, power, and effectual working of the means of grace. What is this effectual working? It is that which we confess in our Sunday Collect, when we give thanks that God “has given us His holy and blessed word,” and then add: “by which thou dost also among us gather Thy Christian Church.” For the Church, the Kingdom of Christ, is “not of this world,” It is a kingdom of Spirit; it consists of people who are indeed ‘in the world but are not of the world, all whom have the Spirit of Christ, (Rom.8:9), and are born again of water and of the Spirit.’ 245 Therefore, properly speaking, there is but one office in the church: the office of preaching the gospel and the administration of the sacraments. However, Koren also clearly taught 244 George Orvick, “The Life and Legacy of Ulrik Vilhelm Koren” Lutheran Synod Quarterly 45, no. 1 (March 2005), 62. 245 Koren, Right Principles, 118. 129
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congregation, not us listeners.”
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synods over the years. But as will
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Books Aaberg, Theodore
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Schroeder, Morton A Time to Remembe
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Ylvisaker, S.C. “The National Lut
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Harstad, Bjug. “Sermon of Genesis
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Zimmermann, Paul. “Scripture Inte
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C.M. Gullerud to Hugo Gamber, lette
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John Brenner to Norman Madson, lett
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Minutes of the Meeting of The Commi
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