One Lord, one Faith, one pot pie!

The name of this blog is taken from a pamphlet by the Reverend David Henkle who was the great leader of Confessional Lutheranism in North Carolina. It is said that a Methodist lady poisoned his coffee. We Lutherans have a great affection for coffee...and beer. You need a depressant after all the stimulation from the coffee. Catawba County Lutherans like Pot Pie. It is a chicken dish but it is not what vulgarly passes for chicken pot pie. It is the dish par excellence of the haute cuisine of our transplanted Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors. It is made in iron black pots placed in dutch ovens. Chicken is cooked off the bone. The chicken removed from the bone. The bones are then returned to the bottom of the pot. Yeast dumplings are added; then the chicken, and finally another layer of dumplings, forming a pie in the pot. There is nothing like it! It is far too good a dish for poor Methodist folk!
The Henkelites, as they were called, were pure land Lutherans. They practiced closed communion.
The sects were not invited; but then they were too honest to want to come to our altars and we were too honest to have them,before they submitted to true doctrine. In those days, long gone, we were very settled in our beliefs and very strict in their observance. The name of our church was The Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod. The name North Carolina was already taken. In Tennessee they had the Holsten Synod because the name Tennessee had already been taken. It looks like very soon there will be a new Lutheran denomination and I just can't wait to see what we name it! We will have a new denomination because, as the Henkelites refused to submit to majority votes before Scripture or Creed or Confession, so do we. The Tennessee Synod had no social statements, other than the Scriptures. They have stood the test of the ages... whether they will stand the test of contextual hermeneutics is another matter.
The old saying still holds true that the more things change the more they remain the same. As for me...give me that old time religion. It was good for David Henkle and it's good enough for me!