This summer vicarage really showed me the relationship between sound doctrine and practice. Sometimes we get the idea that children will simply learn the faith by osmosis. Somewhere and somehow they will learn what it means to be Lutheran. Call me old-fashioned if you will, but one of my favorite words is tradition . For many, the word tradition carries a lot of excess baggage.
Tradition is useless.
Tradition is living in the past, or whatever. What the word really means, though, is to hand over , or perhaps to carry on . We have a tremendous treasure of hymns in the Lutheran Church. They are the words of the Gospel. Here at CTS we are about teaching both young and old the gift of Christ Jesus our Lord.