Now the most objectionable feature of Christianity does not seem to be its claims regarding the historicity of the biblical narrative but the claim of particularity. The religious climate on campus will tolerate the personal testimony to individual spiritual experience as long as that testimony does not become a confession of the exclusive nature of Christianity. Against this backdrop, confessional Lutheran campus ministry confesses and proclaims a message with specific Christological and salvific content. We cannot abandon the name of the One who alone is the way, the truth, and the life. We will not abandon the full-bodied truth of the incarnation and the atonement, of law and gospel, of the specificity of the forgiveness of sins actually given and bestowed in Word and Sacrament in order to be acceptable to the pluralistic campus culture.
Liturgical integrity is a necessary corollary of confessional fidelity.
Lutheran liturgy is shaped and formed by the means of grace that stand at its center. The liturgy guards the catholicity of the church on campus as it serves as a shield against momentary trends that would render the church irrelevant in the name of relevancy. Every aspect of our life and mission flows from the gifts Jesus bestows on us in the preaching of His Word and the giving out of His body and blood in the holy supper. From this lively and life-giving center, the Gospel is carried out to those who do not know Christ or are in doubt or confusion because of the perversion or mishandling of His Word. Gathered in the name of the Triune God, the church in the university is nourished and sustained with the forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation given in sermon and sacrament.