# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2007_S368
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368 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS—COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS

of modemity. (For example, at the time of the Reformation only the
very wealthy had private bedrooms, and kings routinely granted au-
diences while they were being dressed for the day.)

28. The Book of Concord, Kolb-Wengert, 424.

29. The same word is used of Elymas the Sorcerer’s opposition
to Paul and Barnabas (Acts 13:8) and of the opposition of Jannes
and Jambres to Moses (2 Tim. 3:8).

30. Ben Witherington III, Grace in Galatia: A Commentary on
Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998),
151.

31. The Book of Concord, Kolb-Wengert, 12-13.

32. In the course of the twentieth century, many historians would
argue, the dominant culture in America has shifted from a Protes-
tant to a therapeutic worldview. Much of American culture has
traded sin and salvation for self-realization. See T. J. Jackson Lears,

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No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of
American Culture 1880-1920 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981).

33. The list that follows presumes that a sin (which may or may
not be public) has been committed. There are instances where pub-
lic rebuke is undertaken when, in fact, no sin or offense has oc-
curred, when the sin is not public, or when a public rebuke is not
otherwise appropriate. It may well be, therefore, that the one in-
tending to make a public rebuke is in fact the one in error.

34. Kloha and Gibbs rightly caution in this regard, “...one
would hope that in cases where one Christian (lay or clergy)
believes that another has taught something that contradicts sound
Biblical teaching, the concerned Christian would have the common
sense and the Christian decency not to rush to judgment but to make
every effort to speak directly, patiently, and lovingly to the other
party in question” (19).