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Home For Members For Pastors/Leaders Helpful Secular Sites Contact Us Suggest New Links Our Purpose Advertise on L/C Frequently Asked	Embarrassed, even ashamed to be a Missouri Synod Lutheran! Why? When a phone call/email comes in and says help me understand what that is all about with Synod looking to throw Our President out....  Our children, yes grown and on their own with families want an explanation from the parents they look up to and believe in and who taught them to love one another and to pray for our enemies. If praying didn't help we taught our children to go to the person and talk - the bible says so! Well, I can't explain what Rev. Wallace Schulz and the other people/congregations are thinking.  What happens at a plane/train/bus crash - and those clergy, Catholic, Methodist, Jew, whatever, are in the area and bend down to prayer with the people that are hurt - that's wrong? What happened to Matthew 18 - where did these lame pastors go? Weren't they taught in Seminary to go to the person you have a problem with and solve it? Do they skip communion now because they have not made an attempt to talk about this face to face with Pastor Benke? Isn't that what we are taught from an early age, to go and make peace before communing?  How do we tell my family/friends what is going on with this accusation on Pastor Benke for praying in Yankee stadium?  I felt so proud to see my religion being represented by Pastor Benke, especially the Pastor Benke we all know.  The Pastor Benke that makes Jesus come alive just in his daily way of life, his sermons, his counseling.  Lord help us to rise above the politics and jealousy that seems to be in the way and allow us, the Church, to help Rev. Kieschnick be heard that is was OK for him to go and pray with his permission.   Help us, the Church, to look back on the laws that were made in the 1800s - help us, the Church, to love one another - it has to start in the homes and most importantly in the Seminary. Our prayers are humble, filled with much emotion and are most sincere.  Julius and Agnes Fuzia, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Whitestone, NY.