Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986 <http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1986> )

 

Mr. Rooney, having been chewed up by the dog, is walking down the street. A school bus driver lets him onto the bus, where the students are staring at him.  Rooney notices one student has "SAVE FERRIS" written on his binder.

 

Ferris comes out of bathroom: "You're still here?  It's over.  Go home."

 

It’s been more than a year—15 months to be exact--since I shut down Kairos_News and walked away from it….forever.

 

Last Fall I resigned as President of the Evangelical Lutheran Confessing Fellowship. I do not regret that decision in any way, shape or form. The ELCA is as dead as a door nail. Presently, I am on the clergy roster of Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ and struggle to serve as a pastoral counselor amid a world gone mad. And I continue to serve a tiny urban congregation as well (oh, yeah, well I guess they still consider themselves part of the ELCA, at least for the moment…though they have absolutely no respect for the chief vagabond and bandit …er bishop).

 

What really perplexes me is that after 15 months of inactivity, Kairos_News has 371 members!

 

My gosh! Matthew Broderick and I should likely join in chorus is saying: "You're still here?  It's over.  Go home."

 

So often I have debated simply firing off those “delete” torpedoes” so that Kairos_News could sink beneath the icy Atlantic to rest atop the ELCA for which she was organized to reform.

 

But maybe there has been some good purpose why you all have not simply gone away.

 

Luke 18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

 

4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care about men, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming!’”

 

6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

 

Perhaps persistence does pay off.

 

But as I stated, I no longer am interested in reforming the ELCA. The ELCA is beyond reform. In my appraisal it is like a dead man too stunned by the impact of the death wound to know when to fall over and actually be DEAD. But in this case dead is DEAD.

 

However, there is much more to life and the world around us. Culture continues to challenge the faithful. Biblical and Confessional Reform is surely neither over nor a lost cause.

 

So, if you have remained here, let me know your interests. I must confess, however, that I no longer spend such late nights writing, nor do I read so much. And I am better for it, I am sure.

 

BTW…I can be reached at vdmiae@...

 

Christopher

 

The Rev. Christopher Hershman, MA, STM, DMin

Licensed Psychologist, LMFT, LPC, CAS, CGP, CFLE

The Marriage & Family Institute

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Allentown, PA 18106-0303

 

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