PARODY: LCMS the Beautiful

With the 2016 LCMS Synod Convention coming up next month, I needed to relieve some tension I feel over being a delegate. With all the reading if overtures and resolutions, biographies, and mail from lobbyists, it's really a lot to handle. And complaining about those things takes even more energy. Snark takes effort! Anyway, I vent in rhyme and verse, and I'm pretty sure this one is a doozy destined to go down in infamy! Here's the result: a parody to the tune of "America the Beautiful." Enjoy! Walther did. See that smile! *wink*

LCMS the Beautiful

O beautiful bureaucracy

O'er endless by-laws made 

For district presidents to be

The popes of lesser grade. 

L-C-M-S!

L-C-M-S!

The by-laws reign supreme!

Let's vote to chunk 

That Bible junk

And live the sinner's dream!

O beautiful for heresy

That long goes unaddressed;

For pastors who are cursed to be

Inactives long oppressed. 

L-C-M-S!

L-C-M-S!

Our DP's hands are clean. 

Let's vote to flush 

That doctrine mush

And drop AC 14. 

O beautiful, we tossed the cross

For syncretistic prayer

We prayed when facing tragic loss

To show the world we care. 

L-C-M-S!

L-C-M-S!

Let's show our charity!

Let's go and scrap

That Concord crap

To Satan's lasting glee. 

O beautiful! O God, please send

The Spirit. Make us wise

To keep your Word unto the end

Before our voting eyes. 

L-C-M-S!

L-C-M-S!

Have mercy, Lord, we pray,

And keep us straight 

As we debate

These six exhausting days.