Interview with LC-MS President-Elect Matthew Harrison

So by now most of you have probably heard that our beloved Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has elected a new Synodical President.

He was elected at the national convention last month and will be installed as the 13th president of the LC-MS in early September.

Rev. Matthew Harrison, however, who has been serving as the Executive Director of LC-MS World Relief and Human Care, is not necessarily a household name to the laypeople of our Synod. He recently gave an interview to the Reporter which, I believe, goes a long way toward revealing what kind of man, he is, what kind of a Christian and pastor he is, and what kind of a president he is going to be. I personally am very excited about the election of Rev. Harrison as our synodical president. I think he is a very learned man, very humble, extraordinarily confessional and grounded in the faith, and exactly the kind of president that Missouri needs in this tumultuous time.

The interview starts out this way:

Interviewer (James H. Heine): "What is your reaction to your election? You will now serve as the 13th president of the Synod."

Rev. Harrison: "It was a profound combination of joy and sorrow, of hope and also a great sense of my own unworthiness and sinfulness. To stand in front of that great body, a body that directs the future of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, which is, humanly speaking, the most significant force on the globe for confessional Lutheranism and for the proclamation of the Gospel and the administration of the Sacraments, was very, very humbling."

Read the whole thing here.