While Church has always been full of broken people, the tolerant society has made most more self centered and entitled, and as a result less tolerant of others who hold traditional values. You can not fix the Church from the outside. Luther was blunt too and as such became the nemesis of the Catholic Church. Recent events there should make us rethink our recent approach to ecumenical dialogue with them. It is certainly not the Church of Pope Benedict any longer.
Indeed, blunt preaching is entirely acceptable. I recall a very blunt sermon by the President of the LCMS in 2012 on the difference between the LCMS and the UCC, which i admired. I have to confess I feel very sorry for traditional Catholics who are now being persecuted for their preference for the traditional liturgy and their belief systems. The confessional Lutheran Churches are clearly more Catholic than the Roman church, in that nearly every RCC parish has been at least partially wreckovated with an ugly free-standing altar in front of the high altar (which is not even required by the Novus Ordo Missae, which can actually be celebrated ad orientem).
How do they react when these sins are condemned in the appointed scripture readings? This issue is admonished more than once every Church year. Hard to avoid it.
Are we sure those are in the NALC lectionary? I mean, I hope they are, but there is quite a lot of important material missing from the Revised Common Lectionary, which the ELCA uses and which I think was also being used by the LBW (the controversial Green Book) and by the NALC.
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@Shane R does the NALC have its own hymnal yet or are they using the Lutheran Book of Worship, or what? I would be surprised if they were using the current ELCA hymnal given its extremely left-wing content. The ELCA hymnal is literally the worst Lutheran hymnal in my collection (whereas the 2006 LCMS Lutheran Service Book, the 1959 Lutheran Hymnal and Service Book, the old Augustana Synod hymnal with its unique translation of the Swedish Psalter, and the classic, exquisite 1941 Lutheran Hymnal are the finest specimens. I also am intrigued by the new WELS hymnal which looks a bit more exciting than their early 90s hymnal.
I also have one very rare specimen in my Lutheran hymnal collection, that being a special, glossy, Folio-sized copy of Lutheran Worship (the Blue Hymnal used in some LCMS parishes, which was a modified version of the Lutheran Book of Worship) which was specially issued in 1984 for an LCMS convention, and which is very beautifully done, and which I think ought to count as a genuinely interesting piece of LCMS history. And as an added plus, it is in extremely good condition, it might even be considered Like New.