Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "CORE Ignores the Obvious":
As a WELS layman whose eyes were opened through Ichabod to this apostasy only a month ago, let me ask if this is a proper summation of the CORE matter:
CORE says "Christ is at the CORE of everything* we do."
Footnote:
* Except:
a) they don't trust in the efficacy of the Word alone;
"Therefore you had better not boast much about the Spirit if you do not have the visible, external Word; for it will surely not be a good spirit but the wretched devil from hell. The Holy Spirit has embodied His wisdom and counsel and all mysteries of the Word and revealed them in Scripture and ****so no one needs to excuse himself or took and search for anything else."*** [emphasis mine in Luther's sermon words]
b) they provide false testimony about WELS beliefs by openly attending religious training with those that we would not even permit to sup with us at Holy Communion;
c) "Church and Change" scrambles to find ways to augment church worship experience and slick them up, instead of holding dear to the Theology of the Cross and the orderly worship of our forefathers.
d) The longer we lay-leaders let SkiCOREski prance in the Fox Valley without running him out of town pelting him with dog sh*t, the more wrath we'll face from our fellow WELS congregants when their eyes are opened, not to forget the double-edged sword of Christ Almighty Himself;
e) WELS doesn't have the money for such nonsense;
f) we must be on guard in our own congregations for pastors trying to water down liturgical worship, especially in the loosey-goosey Northern Wisconsin district (see the "Rite Worship for Outreach" Bible Study/presentation from the 2008 District convention; even Pastor Schroeder's research showed "contemporary worship" was the bottom of the list of things the unchurched were looking for);
g) I'm now on double-secret probation from the Church & Chicanery cabal for violating Matthew 18, because I didn't first sit down with Ski, hold his hand, and politely explain and itemize this pastors (sic) apostasy to his own satisfaction.
I submit in Love, not Fear, (1 John 4)
Your reader,
Diet O. Worms
"For Satan needs do no more through the enthusiasts than always produce doubt. He thinks it is enough where he can speak haughtily and contemptuously about us, as the rebel sacramentarians do. None of them take pains to make clear and to prove their arrogance, but their concern is to make our interpretations contemptible and uncertain. They teach doubt, not faith... The devil knows he can accomplish nothing in the bright light of truth, so he stirs up the dust, hoping to raise a cloud before our eyes so that we cannot see the light. In the cloud he dazzles us with will o' the wisps to mislead us. Having made up their minds concerning their peculiar notions, they attempt to make the Scriptures agree with them by dragging passages in by the hair. But Christ has faithfully stood by our side up to this point and will continue to trod Satan under our foot. He will protect you all against the seductions of your tyrant and Antichrist and mercifully help us to gain his freedom. Amen." Martin Luther, "A Letter of Martin Luther to Two Pastors"
