Founder and Former Host of Issues Etc.
on Christian News
“While the pre-millennialists, the Calvinists, the Arminians, the mystics, the prosperity teachers, the Pentecostals, and the Charismatics all have their theology widely promoted in over 3,000 Christian Bookstores around the nation, we who claim to have the pure Gospel, seemingly feel that our truth is neither worth promoting nor relevant to the popular issues being so widely discussed and debated.
Rather than promoting what we believe for the welfare of the wider church, we pick fights among ourselves, ignoring the Christian world and the issues debated…The only legitimate vehicle that exists whereby Missouri Synod Lutherans are enable to speak a word to various Christian issues is Christian News. For this reason, God bless Herman Otten”
(Rev. Don Matzat, LCMS pastor, St. Louis MO).
Don Matzat - evangelical pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) in St. Louis, and former host of the radio show, Issues, Etc. At one time an outspoken a (sic) premillennialist and supportive of charismatic gifts, he has since repudiated those views. Much of his ministry focuses on countering the intrusion of worldly concepts into Christian counseling, particularly self-esteem, and he is a harsh critic of deliverance ministry. Titles: Christ Esteem; Inner Healing: Deliverance or Deception?; The Lord Told Me...I Think; Truly Transformed.
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GJ - Matzat - the forgotten contributor to the Formula of Concord. Matzat never left Pentecostalism. In one book he bragged about the Holy Spirit talking to him in a dream and other such nonsense - all consistent with the false doctrine he supposedly left behind. And - he became Benke's advisor in the effort to clear the District Pope of unionism charges. How can anyone in WELS, Missouri, the ELS or CLC be charged with unionism? Every meeting is a Rainbow Coalition.
Matzat started Issues, Etc. and then left it suddenly.