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Title: A HYMNAL FOR THE AGE
Review: Our WELS pastor clued us in on what was coming with this hymnal in 1986.Given the power of certain seminary professors, and the shakey hold WELS and its Wauwautosa theology have on Lutheran orthodoxy, it is not surprising that Christian Worship makes obeisance to just about everything coming down the pike these days, from its Church Growth title, to the treacle of Fanny Crosby ("Take the World, But Give Me Jesus"), to the feminist "inclusive" language (Hark the Herald Angels Sing now has "born that WE [not man] no more may die," O God Our Help in Ages Past has "soon bears US ALL [not her sons] away," etc., etc., etc.) and, of course, they sliced anthropos (men) off the Nicene Creed! No wonder the ELS quit its participation in the production of this hymnal and - with only 20,000 members - turned out a far better one. What a sad commentary on the naivete and poor judgment of these well-meaning Midwesterners. And the numbers of the WELS continue to decline.
