- You imagine love converts people - and you really hate those who disagree.
- You consider your worship and study with Pentecostals/Babtists a delicious secret, which you share with about 1/3 your ministerium.
- You say "Where are the grant application forms" even more often than "Eighth Commandment!"
- You dismiss the historic Christian faith as "legalism."
- You are visibly excited whenever someone claims to be converted by an Enthusiast.
- You think Holy Communion is detrimental to a good service.
- You think the liturgy is a barrier to growth.
- You wince when you hear the word "Creed."
- You realize that a fix-it talk is much more effective than a Law/Gospel sermon.
- You send nasty, crude, foul-mouthed, anonymous comments to Ichabod.
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.