“Lutherans In Africa, Out of Evangelicalism and in the LCMS”
The weekend closest to Valentines Day is always special for Confessional Lutherans because it means the annual BJS shindig which includes authentic Lutheran worship, no pietists allowed parties, high cholesterol food and great speakers.
Next year’s conference will be on Friday and Saturday, February 15-16 here at Bethany Lutheran Church, Naperville, Illinois. We have a great line-up of speakers for you: Rev. James May, Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller and Pastor Jonathan Fisk.
Our theme is “Lutherans!” Rev. May is the Director of Lutherans in Africa and will talk to us about that important work. Pastor Wolfmueller is a former evangelical who is now a dyed in the wool Lutheran and radio host. He will be sharing with us his journey out of evangelicalism and into historic Lutheranism. Pastor Fisk, Associate Pastor here at Bethany, Naperville, and creator/host of Worldview Everlasting will be talking about striving for pure Lutheranism in the LCMS today, a BJS hallmark.
BONUS SESSION – So, in the process of recruiting Wolfmueller, he prevailed upon us to support a recent habit and hobby he has picked up. It is one of his lifetime dreams to be a stand-up comic and he has stipulated that he will only speak at the BJS conference if he gets a chance to do his schtick. (We replied by asking what the difference would be between his normal conference presentation style and stand-up comedy.) Since we try not to take ourselves to seriously here at BJS we thought this was a perfect fit for our conference. So, if for no other reason than to watch Wolfmueller thrive or die under the hot lights of the BJS stage, start making your plans now to attend the conference.
We will be putting up registration materials in the next few weeks. (Click here for a look at last year’s conference.)
I hope to be at this next conference. They are quite a blessing to attend!
I believe Pr. Wolfmueller is a “dyed” in the wool Lutheran, not “died” as written above.
@Jeremiah #2
So noted, thank you Jeremiah for giving me the opportunity to edit my editor! I wonder if Pr. Rossow was being baptismal…
Thank you Jeremiah and Joshua. No, I’m just a moron! 🙂
So Wolfmueller will be rolling out the Lutheran School of Hilarity that weekend. I am sure applications will be flying off the table. I hope he has the curriculum worked out by then.
For those of us who cannot physically attend due to distance will this be streamed?
I guess ‘to seriously’ is not serious at all. Get a better spellchecker.
When will registration open for this fabulous gathering?
Any chance we could get some video on here of the conference.
Nathan,
We have done it in the past, but not every year. No firm plans yet.
We will see where I end up next year. I hope to make it to this one of these years.