Any Random Volunteer Will Do

I just found out about a new disturbing practice that at least one church is engaging in, thanks to The Rebellious Pastor's Wife. Apparently "JH Church" is engaging in something called "Communion Nights", wherein anyone who has received a "laying on of hands" can consecrate and distribute Holy Communion, held at a member's house.

Here is the entirety of my comment that I left for them. I have no confidence that they'll actually publish it:

This is very concerning to me, as a member of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. We profess that the Augsburg Confession is a right and true interpretation of Scripture.
In Augsburg XIV, it is stated that "no one should publicly teach in the Church or administer the Sacraments unless he be regularly called."

The simple laying-on of hands is not a "regular calling" as the Church understands it. If anyone could become a pastor by simple laying-on of hands, then why bother with the Seminaries? Why have regular curriculum that our Pastoral Candidates must pass before becoming actual called and Ordained Pastors?

And, why are you, the supposed spiritual leaders of this church, so contemptuous and disdainful of your sacred calling that you would so eagerly and readily relinquish it to any layman that happened to show up and volunteer for it?

This is a very disturbing practice, in clear disagreement with the Augsburg Confessions and with Holy Scripture.

Please, I urge you to be responsible Pastors and reconsider these "Communion Nights". Keep the Office of the Holy Ministry for those who have been trained in it, rather than any random person that happens along and volunteers at the right time.