Your technology guy, Martin Spriggs, is a Willow Creek fan, a graduate of Mequon.
This blog emphasizes apostasy in all denominations, but especially among the Lutherans. Those who want happy-chatter can go to those websites. The complainers probably pick up Jeremiah and ask, "Why all the jeremiads?" (Note for Mequon grads - jeremiad is a word based on Jeremiah's dire prophecies.)
The new WELS.net website has gone Saddleback/Willowcreek/Core in its treatment of doctrine. Perhaps the attention of members and pastors will remedy the situation.
http://wels.net/what-we-
UOJ is toned down but still there. The only Confessions are the Three Ecumenical Creeds. This may be a tacit admission of WELS ignoring the Book of Concord. Maybe the page is not done yet.
Schwaermer testimonies are found here:
http://wels.net/what-we-believe/own-words
Here is more material to ponder:
http://wels.net/what-we-
The Lutheran Confessions are the WELS statements - no I am not kidding. And yet there is a claim that WELS is not a sect. Nothing says Upper Midwest Sect better than skipping the ruled norm (Book of Concord) for a recent production by that sect - This We Believe.
If you want to know the truth, skip the minor details written by the greatest theologians of the Christian Church--Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, Chytraeus, Andreae, etc.--and memorize the ruminations of a few Doctrinal Pussycats in WELS. That will keep the innocent from wandering off the reservation and attending theological training at such false teaching beehives as: Granger Community Church, Mars Hill, Andy Stanley's Northpoint [sh- Babtist] Community Church, Groeschel's Life TV, The Simple Church, Fuller Seminary, Trinity Deerfield, Gordon Conwell, Denver Seminary, Willow Creek...
What? The WELS leaders are studying there already? I meant - This We Believe will help them form excuses for studying at those citadels of false doctrine.
Archbishop R. Weakland, additional proof that WLC has no gaydar.
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I was following up on a comment made by a WELS member. Following the links brought me to the new WELS.Net site where they reworded the UOJ pronouncement:
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Following their link Spiritual Growth, then Q and A. Current addressing other topics but was previousely directed to this WELS.Net page:
http://wels.net/what-we-believe/questions-answers/salvation/being-good-enough-heaven
So are we good enough to go to heaven?
God takes the "lid" off of our hearts and tells us what he sees. "Every inclination of the heart is evil from childhood" Genesis 8:21. Even if we try hard and work at being kind, good, and perfect we still fail. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23.
So now what do we do? Similar to an uncooked turkey, does the heat get turned up on us in hell? Is our hope to have life in heaven ruined?
Thanks to Jesus Christ our Savior the answer is, "No." We do have hope because Jesus has forgiven our sins by dying on the cross and he has declared us to be innocent by rising from the dead. Because of what Jesus has done, every time that God looks at us he sees "you holy in his sight without blemish and free from accusation" Colossians 1:22.
Are you good enough to go heaven? Jesus did not just make you good enough but he made you perfect! Through faith you receive "the gift of God which is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" Romans 3:23.
Note that WELS now proclaims everyone is perfect in Christ. Faith just gives you salvation. More Kokomo affirmations from the WELS.
"This may be a tacit admission of WELS ignoring the Book of Concord. Maybe the page is not done yet."
Omission of the Book of Concord is no mistake. They do not believe that any one exposition or collection of expositions can be the last word. They want the last word.
They may have failed to post the Lutheran Confessions, which we hope will be rectified, but they did not fail to provide links to Kelms attack on the Lutheran Church. Kelm comes out swinging with, "It may be difficult to agree on the line between tradition and traditionalism, but you can recognize the musty smell of religion better suited to a museum than a marketplace."
http://www.wels.net/news-events/forward-in-christ/december-2005/freedom-from-formalism
The ELS website, which has been up for some time states: "We subscribe to the Lutheran Confessions contained in the Book of Concord originally published in 1580, because they are a faithful and accurate summary of biblical doctrine."
There is, however no link to The Book of Concord on its site.
Isn't the Triglotta in the public domain? It's the version one gets on the LCMS website.
Wouldn't one think that a 'Confessional' Lutheran church body that subscribes to The Book of Concord would link folks to a free copy of the document?
In the case of the ELS, one would be thinking wrong.
>>If you want to know the truth, skip the minor details written by the greatest theologians of the Christian Church--Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, Chytraeus, Andreae, etc.--and memorize the ruminations of a few Doctrinal Pussycats in WELS. That will keep the innocent from wandering off the reservation and attending theological training at such false teaching beehives as: Granger Community Church, Mars Hill, Andy Stanley's Northpoint [sh- Babtist] Community Church, Groeschel's Life TV, The Simple Church, Fuller Seminary, Trinity Deerfield, Gordon Conwell, Denver Seminary, Willow Creek...<<
So true and poignant!
Hi Dr. Jackson,
Steadfast Lutherans says that the WELS updated their website, and has put the confessions and liturgy front and center. However, when I went there, I didn't see anything about the confessions. Moreover, they only listed the 3 ecumenical creeds and not the Lutheran Confessions. Am I missing something, or is Steadfast Lutherans merely covering for the WELS?
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http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=8373
December 1st, 2009Post by Pastor Tim Rossow
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) has recently updated its website. It is attractive and easy to maneuver but best of all it puts the Lutheran Confessions and traditional liturgical worship front and center. Those are two of the major works to which the Brothers of John the Steadfast are committed and so we like the new WELS website.
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