Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Jeske Is Definitely In the Cookie Jar":
I wasn't referring to why this blogger has not admonished Schroeder or Deutshlander (sic). I was simply asking him to put more focus on the good. You know, like when parents try to get their kids to eat veggies because sugar is bad for them. If he is to be a spiritual father of sorts, then he must point his spiritual children (that's you WELS church lady) to good foods (doctrine) as well as warn against eating unhealthy food (bad doctrine). He focuses a lot (especially lately) on what he perceives to be false teaching.
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GJ - The theme of this blog is false doctrine among the apostates. I doubt whether anyone else has published so many verbatim quotations from the orthodox Lutherans. Try reading more than the first page. Check out the sermons, many accompanied by the best quotations I can find on the subject.
Complaining about apostasy being questioned is common today. Someone can always start a blog called The Glory Is Ours. Howzabout it?
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Anonymous states, "He focuses a lot (especially lately) on what he perceives to be false teaching."
The Scriptural and Confessional statements condemning the false doctrines and practices running rampant have taken this beyond "perception" to "point of fact".
Here's a little glory. The Spiritual Gifts drive is coming around the WELS again. Can you feel the separation of Law and Gospel. No? Then you've got to lay your head on the tracks...
Sermon finale: This part of the sermon isn’t too lengthy, because this is for your thought and consideration. Now is the time to examine yourself. This is important because we could have a sinful attitude in a few ways:
• We sin if we are unaware of our
spiritual gifts and never try to
identify them. Paul says they’re
to be used for the “common
good.”
• We sin if we identify how we’ve
been uniquely gifted by God and
choose not to use our gifts for his
glory. How unfortunate that
would be!
• We also sin if we chafe in
jealousy over gifts that someone
else has that you do not have. In
Corinth, as we said before,
people desired the flashier gifts:
healing and speaking in tongues.
Some had jealousy over this,
even though Paul taught them
that speaking in tongues is a
lesser gift on the spectrum! How
sad it would be to feel anger at
God because you don’t have
musical gifts to offer. How sad it
would be to feel resentment
because you wish you were
richer so you could give more.
May we be led to contentment as
we identify the talents God has given us to
use!
As we close our “searching time”
today in examining ourselves for the gifts God has given, let’s never forget the reason we can offer them to his service. It is not guilt. It is not duty. It is because Christ loved us enough to serve us with his unique identity as the Son of God! He served as our Savior when no one else could. He has given us forgiveness and a purpose in life. Praise God today for the gifts he has given you! May you put them to use for him. Amen.
http://www.htlc-wa.org/home/140004986/140004986/140047070/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20111509Sermon.pdf
By "perception" it should have been obvious that I meant there were disagreements about how a particular passage of the Scriptures or the Confessions was to be interpreted. Some see Universal Objective Justification in the Book of Concord (and Luther et. al.) and others see that this is a form of Enthusiasm. Neither side has really been able to convince the other (as far as I can see).
More clarification: I am not suggesting that two interpretations (such as UOJ is true and UOJ is not true) are equally valid. It is simply a fact that we do not have the same spirit.
Perhaps I will start a blog, then again since I am anonymous (although I am actually a person, not a robot, or worse a Church Growth Enthusiast), it might be a while since I start one, if at all. I shall post the link should I decide to start blogging regularly.
President Kieschnick and leaders at the synod HQ and LCMS seminaries try to allay suspicions that they might sell off one or both seminary campuses. However, when the synod barely support the seminaries and tuition skyrockets to $18k per year, isn't that nearly as good as closing them?
Besides not putting their money where their mouth is, they worsen the situation by issuing a statement: 1) demoting the seminaries to being only ministerial education "hubs," and 2) not disavowing that they themselves want the seminaries closed, but merely state that there is no synod-wise consensus for doing so. You can almost hear Kieschnick saying, "Ah shucks!".
http://thisweekinseminary.blogspot.com/2009/12/seminary-statement.html
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=8579
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=8581
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