Far a few reasons, I have decided to republish an old story today instead of writing a new post. One of the reasons is that this past Sunday, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod included the photo shown below in its normal Sunday morning post on Facebook to inform its followers what the Bible readings are for the day. This photo shows the crucifix that adorns the altar of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg.
Not long ago, a delegation visited Trinity and our museum in order to get stories and photos for an article that was published recently in the Lutheran Witness about Trinity, Altenburg. Perhaps you read that article. The photo of Trinity’s crucifix was taken at that time.
The post that I will share today is one that highlighted the story of that crucifix. It includes a similar photo of the crucifix taken by our museum’s friend, Ken Steinhoff.
I will also add that in these photos, you can see the bottom portion of the church’s pulpit, which is an elevated one that is found directly above the altar. It is an architectural feature that is not found in many churches. This morning at my men’s Tuesday morning Bible Class, one of the attendees was Chuck Groh, who recently moved back to his hometown. I cannot remember how many great’s go in front of “grandfather’ for his ancestor, Charles Groh, who was the carpenter who did the woodwork inside Trinity’s 1867 church sanctuary, which is still in use. I will add that our class this morning was discussing the construction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. We had quite an interesting conversation about how similar that Biblical construction was to the construction of Trinity’s present-day church.
I know I love living in a place that has such a rich Lutheran history.