would repudiate the theology of glory
brayed by the followers of Church and Chicanery.
C&C is getting all the grants and financial assistance that should be going to the likes of Rev Jackson, and then they have the nerve to taunt him for his not having a real chapel to conduct worship services in. (Bruce Church)
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GJ - I do not covet any grants. Our Internet chapel began because some people on the West coast wanted to have weekly liturgical services. Our congregation was using the teleconference bridge, which is really inadequate. I was talked into hooking up a webcam and beginning weekly services. We were having services twice a month before that. Once the web services began we started having up to 17 households participate in some way, some there to jeer, as comments have shown.
Every Lutheran should be embarrassed when a Lutheran pastor exclaims, "Twenty sub-woofers behind that screen!" I also heard Sausage Factory products gush over all the money spent by ELCA on public relations. I wonder who taught them that factoid.
I wonder if anyone remembers this wonderful statement from Franz Pieper, born in the Wisconsin Synod:
"Let us learn more and more to look upon the Lutheran Church with the right kind of spiritual eyes: it is the most beautiful and glorious Church; for it is adorned with God's pure Word. This adornment is so precious, that even though an orthodox congregation were to consist of very poor people - let us say nothing but woodchoppers - and met in a barn (as the Lord Christ also lay here on earth in a barn, on hay and straw), every Christian should much, much rather prefer to affiliate himself with this outwardly so insignificant congregation, rather than with a heterodox congregation, even if its members were all bank presidents and assembled in a church built of pure marble. Let us be sure that our flesh, and the talk of others does not darken the glory of the orthodox Church, or crowd it out of our sight."
Francis Pieper, The Difference between Orthodox and Heterodox Churches, and Supplement, Coos Bay, Oregon: St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1981, p. 47.
