John has left a new comment on your post ""Mine Is the Glory" - Jeske":
Is WELS perfect? Of course not.
But then, neither is ELS, LCMS, CLC, or any other brand of 'Confessional' Lutheran available.
Let us not forget that neither WELS, ELS, LCMS, CLC, nor ANY OTHER 'Confessional' Lutheran church saves.
No pastor saves, either.
None of the above is The Means of Grace.
Considering the above, isn't it incumbent upon a pastor who presents the Word through the media to inform folks hungering for the truth where they may learn more (catechesis), and where they may receive the Means of Grace through the proper preaching of the Word and the rightful administration of Baptism and The Lord's Supper?
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GJ - The synods have promoted synod-worship most of all, so their ministers preach the synod rather than the Gospel. A letter in Christian News recently claimed the Church Growthy CLC (sic) was "the real Missouri Synod."
The apostates of synod-worship promote personality cults rather than teaching the Means of Grace. Instead of trembling before the Word, the Word trembles before them. They order God to obey their wishes and sing, "Mine is the glory."
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Confessional Lutheranism is a diaspora in this country. There are huge, gaping holes in Lutheran Theology in the party line that is proclaimed from the official synod sources. Synod worship is a type of sleight of hand. FIC and the WELS Connection videos tend to focus on what the synod is doing while the Church and Chicanery forces are working in the background. One must think outside of the synod box. Like the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, real Lutheranism is scattered about.
Not all apostates of synod-worship promote personality cults. The synods offer nothing worthy of worship apart from their own delusions of grandeur.
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