Christopher has left a new comment on your post "One Block from The CORE":
I am new to this blog and I am absolutely ashamed! How dare you people call yourself Christians when you spend way too much time and energy tearing people down out of hatred, spite, and fear. Would it nor be better for the Kingdom of God that you take this energy and put it to good use, like, perhaps showing genuine brotherly Christian love? Or how about sharing the wonderful news of God's mercy through the sacrifice of his Son for our sins? Who cares what the CORE or any of the other churches you blast are doing as long as they are showing the love of Christ to people? Especially those who may not be getting it otherwise? Is that not what we are called to do? Make disciples of ALL nations, not just our WELS nation.
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GJ - I realize Luther is irrelevant to Changers, but he did point out that the Word, not love, converts people. No one has been called to manufacture disciples - that is an erroneous, not to mention illiterate, version of the Great Commission.
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"How dare you people call yourself Christians when you spend way too much time and energy tearing people down out of hatred, spite, and fear."
It sounds like the writer is projecting.
Turning a blind eye does NOT love make.
Luther on the "Role of Love" when doctrinal error is involved:
"In the church, however, as far as the Word is concerned, it is not a matter of the forgiveness of sins; but this is the mathematical point and the highest purity. The Word is so irreproachable that not a single iota can err in the Law or the divine promises. For that reason we must yield to no sect, not even in one tittle of Scripture, no matter how much they clamor and accuse us of violating love when we hold so strictly to the Word. The beginning of all love is that the scepter of equity remains. If there is no other way of achieving this, then love or anything else must be broken, be it ever so great, just so the Word remains pure" (in his commentary on Psalm 45).
"We are prepared to preserve peace and love with all men if only they will permit us to keep the doctrine of faith entire and uncorrupted. If they will not promise this, they will demand love from us in vain. Damned be that love which is maintained at the cost of the doctrines of the faith! ...If a single one is set aside, they will gradually all be lost. They form one single, harmonious whole..." (from his commentary on Galatians 5:9).
Luther was such a fine influence in his day. Too bad he is culturally outdated and no longer relevant in ours. Fellowship used to be "the immune system of the Church," now it is an impediment to numerical growth.
Freddy Finkelstein
"How dare you people call yourself Christians when you spend way too much time and energy tearing people down out of hatred, spite, and fear."
How does this guy know if we're tearing people down out of hatred spite and fear?
I tear 'em down because of false doctrine.
Get rid of Ski.
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