Here’s the working outline:

Pastoring in the Context of America Christianity: Pastors Conference (Billings, Montana, Oct 2019)

• Understanding the Spiritual Landscape: The Four Marks of American Christianity

We’ll explore the four headwaters of American Christianity: revivalism, pietism, mysticism, and enthusiasm, and see how they dull the glory of the Gospel

• Off the Pendulum of Pride and Despair

Ap III.138 (IV.303), The Prodigal Son and the Three Slaveries, The Judgment of the Cross on the Opinio Legis

• The Conscience-Focused Theology of the Lutheran Confessions

The prevalence of the conscience in the Lutheran Confessions, three pictures of the conscience, the natural imprecision of the conscience, four things the conscience knows, three ways the conscience is hardened, and the one way the conscience is made right. 

• The Conscience-Focused Pastor

Heaven, church, and heart, the pastor as paraklete, the conscience-focused pastor, guilt and shame and the aim of comfort, Luther’s introduction to Psalm 51 and the pastor who sees man as sinner. 

• Why the Devil Attacks the Sacraments 

AC VII, Luther Against the Heavenly Prophets, forgiveness delivered, Supply-line theology, Matthew 28 & 26 and desserted island Lutheranism