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Worship services

Convention business sessions and worship services were livestreamed so that people across the LCANZ could follow the Synod journey along with delegates. The worship services have been extracted from the recorded livestreams and are available below for viewing. (Note that there was no full worship service on Saturday.)

Sermons

‘Walking wet’ in the baptismal life

October 10, 2024

As Pastor Neville Otto told worshippers during Synod’s closing service, 158 years ago Lutheran missionaries set out ‘walking wet’ from SA’s Barossa Valley to take the gospel to the state’s Far North.

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The four five ‘Gs’ of gospel life

October 6, 2024

Gift. Grace. Gathered. Good (works). These words are ‘the four “Gs” of our gospel life as the church’, LCANZ Bishop Paul Smith told worshippers at today’s General Synod and St John’s Unley service.

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Grace is the word

October 4, 2024

Worshippers at the opening service of the LCA’s 21st Convention of General Synod in suburban Adelaide earlier today were in no doubt about the word of the day – and the word of the four-day event – grace.

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