ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Monday, September 8, 2008
The Eighth Commandment
284] All this has been said regarding secret sins. But where the sin is quite public so that the judge and everybody know it, you can without any sin avoid him and let him go, because he has brought himself into disgrace, and you may also publicly testify concerning him. For when a matter is public in the light of day, there can be no slandering or false judging or testifying; as, when we now reprove the Pope with his doctrine, which is publicly set forth in books and proclaimed in all the world. For where the sin is public, the reproof also must be public, that every one may learn to guard against it.
The Book of Concord, Large Catechism, Eighth Commandment
Woman Turns to Islam After Lutheran Seminary Experience
This Woman Was Disappointed by an ELCA Seminary
Anyway, times were changing. I found a Lutheran seminary which accepted me. After graduating from the university, I packed up and headed to Chicago to begin my training for the ministry.
I had some very positive experiences in Chicago. I got along well with my two roommates, and made other friends. I studied Latin with a Polish priest who couldn’t hide his excitement when he learned that the newly-selected pope was Polish. I listened to lectures by scholars at the nearby University of Chicago, and even landed a job dusting the apartment of one old professor. I heard Handel’s Messiah performed in an old cathedral by a professional choir. I soaked up the atmosphere of life on the Southside of Chicago.
But my studies were disappointing. One professor told us that while Christian scholars had determined that the Bible was not infallible, we should not tell our parishioners this. When I asked questions, I was told to “simply believe.” Then there was the seminary social life–parties, drinking. I packed up and left Chicago after one semester, extremely disillusioned.
New DPs in WELS
Lord God, You have appointed me as a Bishop and Pastor
in Your Church,
but you see how unsuited I am to meet so great and difficult a task.
If I had lacked Your help, I would have ruined everything long ago.
Therefore, I call upon You:
I wish to devote my mouth and my heart to you;
I shall teach the people.
I myself will learn and ponder diligently upon Your Word.
Use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me,
for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
Wayne Mueller To Guide Conference in Glendale: Don't Fail To Miss This One
10/21/2008 - 10/23/2008 - Arizona/California District Pastoral Conference, Grace, Glendale, Arizona. From the district calendar.
Adam Mueller is a big cheese at Church and Change, the official agency of apostasy in WELS. I kept a graphic about Church and Change, where Olson, Gunn, and Mueller appear on the same page.
Someone will a terrific sense of humor invited me to this conference, which is just a few miles from our home. I should invite this humorist to stay at our home, enjoy our pool and hot tub, and brag about it at Grace, Glendale.
I will definitely come to the conference if Wayne Mueller denounces the Church Growth Movement, Church and Change, and Justification without Faith (UOJ).
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GJ - I had to delete A. Nony Mouse's crudity. That is how the WELS Church Shrinkage pastors talk and write. Obviously this poor soul was hovering over the Ichabod site, waiting for something to say. Perhaps the Luther quotes will convert him to the faith one day. Wesley used to say, "If you can't convert them, at least make them angry." Part I is completed...
I went to a WELS conference in Tucson 10 years ago. Valleskey avoided me and later complained I should have talked to him. When he gave his famous "spoiling the Egyptians" essay in Pennsylvania, reprinted in WLQ, I had to walk at flank speed to keep Valleskey from running away from me. He denied attending Fuller when I asked him directly, although I knew he studied at Fuller. He bragged about it at Apostles. At the Pennsylvania conference, I sat down with him at dinner, where he again avoided talking to me. One of the CG drones, Schuman, ran interference for Valleskey.
Two Alerts
Pope John
The ELS Newsletter, The Pope Speaks, has not yet been published for September. We are looking for the latest victims of the papal purge. Not even Holy Father in Rome has given the Left Foot of Fellowship to such a large percentage of the ministerium. Perhaps the delay comes from B16 asking for advice on how to be a walking disaster while getting re-elected.
UOJ
A contact so deep undercover that he communicates through another undercover source--lost yet?--has notified me of a UOJ document he will soon expose. Stay tuned. That is all I know.
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