Comments on: ELCA Names

By: Jeff Greathouse

Jeff Greathouse — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:55:20 +0000

I have to come over to Matt’s blog to find Bryan …. hope all is well with you Bryan.

It has been awhile since I chatted with you as well Matt, it seems. Love the posts that you have been doing.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:35:43 +0000

Wow. BRTFSSG. Amazing.

You should do an LCMS abbreviation post.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:34:20 +0000

Haha, that would have been awesome. Yeah, I know there are pros and cons to both sides, I just think it’s funny how descriptive and unimaginative some of the above group names are. The gospel can be proclaimed whether the group is called Prime Timers of the Association of Lutheran Older Adults.

By: Bryan Jaster

Bryan Jaster — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:06:27 +0000

Lutheran Student Movement
Lutheran Outdoor Ministries

By: alaina

alaina — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:06:00 +0000

I think it may be a lutheran thing… the lcms’ers do it too. Except then they make them into adjectives. It gets really confusing when everything is referred to by their adjectives and they are only one letter different:
Concordia Publishing House CPH or Concordia Health Plans CHP

I recently got an email titled: “BRTFSSG Information You Need To Know.”
It might have been spam, but it was actually an update on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Synod Structure and Governance.

Not everything should be acronymed.

By: KaGe

KaGe — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:57:11 +0000

I’ve worked with the ELCA before…and to be honest, even though they’re not trendy names, i kind of like the fact that you get exactly what you’re looking for. I know in a previous church (not ELCA) that i volunteered with, it was 6 months of me missing the Prime Timers meetings (and trying to remember to go to them) before i realized that it was for the old, over 65, members…could you imagine, me a 25 year old showing up to the over 65 crowd…it’d be fun, but very embarassing.