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Thankful that Pastor Dan could join our class on the Book of Concord. This week we looked at the Augsburg Confession's view of the saints, both their value and limits. This is a very relevant topic in Asia, where many engage in practices that venerate ancestors.
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I've been teaching this crew through the Small Catechism for a few months now. When we completed it, I asked if they wanted to continue. The answer was a resounding yes! We've just started digging into the Book of Concord, specifically the Augsburg Confession and its Apology. We are taking a topical approach, starting with sin and free will. We look at different passages and then I pose questions for discussion. This is heavy lifting, but they've been eager and quick to learn. We remain thankful for Lutheran Heritage Foundation, who translated the entire Book of Concord and has provided it free of charge.
Group photo, last day of Lutheran Confessions course.
Great way to start day 3 of the Confessions course!
Some shots from day 1 of J.P.'s course on the Lutheran Confessions, taught for the Luther Institute of Southeast Asia. Each day, the class is split into groups. Taking a topical approach to the Confessions, they read selections from the different documents and discuss them together before coming back to the larger group to debrief.
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This week J.P. is teaching a course on the Lutheran Confessions for the Luther Institute of Southeast Asia. It never gets old to see 21st-century Cambodians reading, in Khmer language, 16th-century Reformation documents from Europe. Many thanks to Lutheran Heritage Foundation for their work to translate and distribute this valuable resource.
At the invitation of the Cambodia Lutheran Church, J.P. had the opportunity to travel, along with leaders (pastors, deaconesses, and educators), to Mondulkiri Province for a 4-day seminar on the Book of Concord. This is the second such seminar since Lutheran Heritage Foundation published the book in Khmer.
As with the first seminar, J.P. took a topical approach, focusing in the Augsburg Confession and the Apology, with three goals: that they would 1) read the Book of Concord for the first time in their own language, 2) discuss it together, and 3) apply it’s importance to their own lives.
J.P. was so encouraged to see people not only reading this new resource but engaging its theology and seeing its relevance to issues today. By the end they were asking for another chance to study it further!
As we mentioned in our last newsletter, Lutheran Heritage Foundation (LHF) just published the first of two volumes of the Book of Concord in Khmer language. Our local partners were so excited to get people exposed to this historic resource, and especially its content, as soon as possible. During a recent public holiday, several partners from different organizations took the opportunity to collaborate on a seminar for 15 students. The seminar was planned, supported, and/or joined by leaders from LHF, of course, but also Lutheran Hour Ministries’ office in Cambodia, the Cambodia Lutheran Church, Christ Lutheran Church Phnom Penh, and the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.
J.P. was asked to teach the seminar. How to distill such important theological content, steeped in concrete historical circumstances, to people far removed by time and culture? To keep it manageable, J.P. focused only on the Augsburg Confession and its Apology, taking a topical approach that highlighted key historical controversies (e.g. indulgences, purgatory and the treasury of merits, repentance and penance, the cult of the saints, the Lord’s Supper, and the relationship between faith and good works) while also unfolding the reformers’ response to those issues.
J.P. was a bit nervous about teaching such rigorous theology to a mixed audience of both lay and clergy with a wide variety in Scriptural knowledge and theological aptitude. His goal was not so much to get through a certain amount of material (the seminar only got through half of his prepared content!). Instead, J.P. had three main goals: 1) that they would read the Book of Concord to familiarize themselves with its structure and content, 2) that they would discuss it among themselves so that they internalize its theology, and 3) that they would see its relevance to their lives today. As such, instead of lecturing, he played a role more like a “tour guide,” providing a basic historical introduction to issues, guiding the students to relevant selections from the Book of Concord, and then asking questions that would help them discover the theology within and apply it to issues they face in their every day lives.
The seminar was help in Stung Treng and Preah Vihear provinces, which afforded opportunities to visit some local sites, including Sopheakmit Waterfall.
All in all, it was a very successful introduction for an invaluable resource! Lutheran Heritage Foundation’s perseverance and expertise to make it available will certainly bear fruit for decades to come!
