After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder Years. What started me thinking in this vein was a Confessional Lutheran college student who in a sea of meh Lutheranism remained firm and is now a parish pastor. He grew up in a remote area; he said that he learned Confessional Lutheranism from the internet. That was 7 or 8 years ago. I’ve been thinking about doing this ever since.
For the next 15 Fridays you will find my classes on Luther’s Small Catechism. The edition I am going through and referencing is the NIV version of the 1991 Catechism published in burgundy color in 2005. You can use an earlier version, published in blue, but the pagination is different. You can also you the 2007 (I think) edition also in burgundy but with ESV Bible translation. I would not recommend the 2017 Catechism. Confessional Lutheran pastors I respect studied it and were very critical. I did not study it because I knew that after 35 years of teaching the ’91 catechism, I wasn’t switching. Continue reading
