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Anon 8:03
Hi, good point. Sad but true. If only we could beat the C&Cers with spell-check. I'm sadly convinced that the WELS is doomed without fearless action: That is NOT to say that the many conservative Confessional pastors and churches in the WELS are doomed.
We are going to have to rely on the rural WELS segment to step up and Just Say No to Enthusiasm.
Professor: In your footnotes for chapter five of TSW, you mention some essays by a Pastor Vernon Harley that are well written and worth reading, but I can't find them anywhere. I'd like to have some LCMS writing to present to my my pastor in our discussion of UOJ. (It helps if I can give in-synod sources) Would it be too much trouble to post these, maybe in your required reading section?
Also, I was wondering if you had any further thought on the Maier essay that I brought up.
thanks for your work,
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GJ - I had the hard-copies for a long time. Eventually I lost track of them due to lack of interest in the UOJ topic among Lutherans in general. That started changing two years ago.
PM - if you are reading this, send me new copies. I will have to locate them again.
Secondly, they have to be rendered into MS Word so I can post them. But I will get that done.
DK keeps me busy, folks.
It is not our job to judge success, only to apply the Word, regardless of the unwritten rules of the game. I was told that I startled people in WELS by walking up to them and challenging them face-to-face. I did not adhere to their memorized talking point excuses, such as:
"Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater." (I replied - "I don't wash babies in sewage.")
Of course, they demand that everyone tell them their error in private, but that is only so the false teachers can get even through whispering campaigns, meddling in another's divine call, etc. But that is not enough for them either. They will denounce someone in public, as long as they can get away with it. And they often do.
We should tremble at His Word, not at the feet of synod officials.
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Thanks,
When you locate the Hardy essays I would gladly assist by typing them into MSWord.
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Also: thank you also for the reminder about judging success. Who knows how God will work through the Word. I needed to hear and remember that. Thank you.
"We are going to have to rely on the rural WELS segment to step up and Just Say No to Enthusiasm."
What?!! Are you KIDDING me? Rural congregations? Have you been to any? Rural, country and city have nothing to do with this. I have been to more than one infact many "rural" congregations that are just as on the path to Enthusiasm and wildly into CGM as you can get. Hear are two for starters:
St. Peters in Freedom North of Appleton. Ron Ash comes from there and is one of the founders of the Core. St. Peters is well involved with the New Paradigm church or what ever new name it takes this month. Even has more than one woman openly pitching Willow Creek-ism and all of the CGM methodolgy to women's groups in WELS or anyone else who cares to listen.
Rural congregation, St. Matthews http://www.stmatthewsonline.org/ is perhaps one of the newest and RURAL of how to redo your congregation into a seeker friendly, replete with doses of "Come to Jesus" talk.
Look at their web page above for your dose of "rural goes to the city."
No, Rural congreations in WELS are perhaps just as ripe or more ripe for the picking than any city church. It has nothing to do with the discussion. Error, false doctrine and Enthusiams know NO boundries.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
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