In 2003 the Commission on Parish Schools and the Board for Parish Services resolved to establish a WELS school accreditation process as a means of improving the educational quality and effectiveness of Lutheran schools and their ministry. The formal title of the accreditation process is Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod School Accreditation (WELSSA). The CPS presented WELSSA to the National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA) and applied for membership in that organization. In June 2003 the NCPSA granted Candidacy Status to WELSSA. Two of the requirements of that Candidacy Status is that WELSSA be field tested in WELS schools and that an NCPSA consultant work with the Executive Director of WELSSA during that field test. In June 2005 the NCPSA accepted WELSSA as a member
WELSSA Handbook Chapter Four – Q & A Rev 6/2004
21. What is the nature of the team that will visit the school? All team members will be educators. One of those educators may be from a public school or from a private Christian school. Some teams may include a WELS pastor. The team will include a team captain who is a WELS educator, who meets specific qualifications, and who has received the required training.
24. What is the National Council for Private School Accreditation? The NCPSA is a national entity that serves as an accrediting association of private school accrediting agencies. It is “dedicated to the distinctives of the private school sector and based on external standards of excellence and credibility as fulfilled by voluntary peer recognition – the basic concept and rationale of accreditation” (NCPSA Introductory Information and Directory 2001, p.2). NCPSA recognized accrediting agencies follows: 1. Accrediting Association of Seventh-Day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities 2. Alabama Independent School Association 3. Association of Christian Schools International 4. Association of Christian Teachers and Schools, Assemblies of God 5. Association of Independent Schools of Florida 6. Association of Waldorf Schools of North America 7. Christian Schools International 8. Christian Schools of Florida 9. Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools 10. International Christian Accrediting Association 11. Kentucky Nonpublic School Commission 12. Montessori School Accreditation Commission 13. National Christian School Association 14. National Independent Private School Association
NCPSA Candidate Associations 1. National Accreditation Board of Merkos L ‘Inyonei Chinuch 2. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod School Accreditation (WELSSA)
Quite a compliment to hear a catholic educator comment so strongly about the religious instruction of our young people and the knowledge of our teachers. It is sad that the she admits the catholic education system is not that way.
Anonymous at 6:49PM states, "Quite a compliment to hear a catholic educator comment so strongly about the religious instruction of our young people and the knowledge of our teachers. It is sad that the she admits the catholic education system is not that way."
Why would you want the Catholic schools to improve their religious instruction? If anyone believes what the Catholic Church teaches they are damned for eternity and do not have Christ.
Unfortunately, the WELS "accreditation" program came too late for me. I went through one of those totally non-rigorous WELS grade schools. My parents thought I was doing just fine since I got As and Bs, but sadly, they never heard of grade inflation. All I can say is thank God for calculators and computer spell checkers, since these inanimate objects have taught me some of what my WELS teachers did not.
If they confess what the Catholic Church teaches they stand condemned.
If they, as hypocrites in their denomination, cling to faith in Christ alone for the forgiveness of sins then they will be saved. Of course, faith in Christ alone requires that they reject works righteousness, idolatry, and all the other things taught in the Catholic faith which reject and supplant Christ as the sole Redeemer and Savior through faith. Clinging to any of these is a denial of Christ alone.
This is the danger of Universal Objective Justification as taught by all Lutheran Synods. It replaces the Gospel as taught by Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions with a new man made gospel.
Christ is no longer present in the central doctrine of Christian faith if the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone is perverted.
Anonymous at 7:43PM, Scripture is God's Word. The Lutheran Confessions are the correct explanation of God's Word. A Confessional Lutheran appeals to the Confessions as the correct understanding of the chief articles of Christ's doctrine.
Do you disagree that the Lutheran Confessions are the correct explanation of the chief articles of Christian faith?
If you agree that they are why would you be annoyed that anyone would appeal to them to test the spirits?
If you don't, what do you disagree with?
Recommended reading is the Preface to the Christian Book of Concord found here: http://www.bookofconcord.org/boc-intro.php
Laity and clergy in the Lutheran synods object to the Book of Concord being used as refutation of false doctrine and as a benchmark for determining Lutheran Orthodoxy because the BOC doesn't allow wiggle room on the chief articles of Christian faith. Positive and Negative theses do not allow personal interpretation and speculation which they have been accustom to using on Scripture. Many in the Lutheran churches are not Lutheran. The Lutheran synods are confrontation-less, they avoid controversy over keeping doctrine pure and practice right. They chase after unity at the cost of Christ's doctrine and eventually at the cost of eternal life.
From the Preface to the BOC: "3] Afterwards many churches and schools embraced and defended this Confession as a symbol of the present time in regard to the chief articles of faith, especially those involved in controversy with the Romanists and various corruptions of the heavenly doctrine [sects], and with perpetual agreement have appealed to it without any controversy and doubt. The doctrine comprised in it, which they knew both to be supported by firm testimonies of Scripture, and to be approved by the ancient and accepted symbols, they have also constantly judged to be the only and perpetual consensus of the truly believing Church, which was formerly defended against manifold heresies and errors, and is now repeated."
Very few confess this anymore. It's a sign of the times.
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In 2003 the Commission on Parish Schools and the Board for Parish Services resolved to establish a WELS school accreditation process as a means of improving the educational quality and effectiveness of Lutheran schools and their ministry. The formal title of the accreditation process is Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod School Accreditation (WELSSA). The CPS presented WELSSA to the National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA) and applied for membership in that organization. In June 2003 the NCPSA granted Candidacy Status to WELSSA. Two of the requirements of that Candidacy Status is that WELSSA be field tested in WELS schools and that an NCPSA consultant work with the Executive Director of WELSSA during that field test. In June 2005 the NCPSA accepted WELSSA as a member
WELSSA Handbook Chapter Four – Q & A Rev 6/2004
21. What is the nature of the team that will visit the school?
All team members will be educators. One of those educators may be from a public school or from a private Christian school. Some teams may include a WELS pastor. The team will include a team captain who is a WELS educator, who meets specific qualifications, and who has received the required training.
24. What is the National Council for Private School Accreditation?
The NCPSA is a national entity that serves as an accrediting association of private school accrediting agencies. It is “dedicated to the distinctives of the private school sector and based on external standards of excellence and credibility as fulfilled by voluntary peer recognition – the basic concept and rationale of accreditation” (NCPSA Introductory Information and Directory 2001, p.2).
NCPSA recognized accrediting agencies follows:
1. Accrediting Association of Seventh-Day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities
2. Alabama Independent School Association
3. Association of Christian Schools International
4. Association of Christian Teachers and Schools, Assemblies of God
5. Association of Independent Schools of Florida
6. Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
7. Christian Schools International
8. Christian Schools of Florida
9. Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools
10. International Christian Accrediting Association
11. Kentucky Nonpublic School Commission
12. Montessori School Accreditation Commission
13. National Christian School Association
14. National Independent Private School Association
NCPSA Candidate Associations
1. National Accreditation Board of Merkos L ‘Inyonei Chinuch
2. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod School Accreditation (WELSSA)
Quite a compliment to hear a catholic educator comment so strongly about the religious instruction of our young people and the knowledge of our teachers. It is sad that the she admits the catholic education system is not that way.
Anonymous at 6:49PM states, "Quite a compliment to hear a catholic educator comment so strongly about the religious instruction of our young people and the knowledge of our teachers. It is sad that the she admits the catholic education system is not that way."
Why would you want the Catholic schools to improve their religious instruction? If anyone believes what the Catholic Church teaches they are damned for eternity and do not have Christ.
Unfortunately, the WELS "accreditation" program came too late for me. I went through one of those totally non-rigorous WELS grade schools. My parents thought I was doing just fine since I got As and Bs, but sadly, they never heard of grade inflation. All I can say is thank God for calculators and computer spell checkers, since these inanimate objects have taught me some of what my WELS teachers did not.
So no Catholics are saved?
If they confess what the Catholic Church teaches they stand condemned.
If they, as hypocrites in their denomination, cling to faith in Christ alone for the forgiveness of sins then they will be saved. Of course, faith in Christ alone requires that they reject works righteousness, idolatry, and all the other things taught in the Catholic faith which reject and supplant Christ as the sole Redeemer and Savior through faith. Clinging to any of these is a denial of Christ alone.
This is the danger of Universal Objective Justification as taught by all Lutheran Synods. It replaces the Gospel as taught by Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions with a new man made gospel.
Christ is no longer present in the central doctrine of Christian faith if the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone is perverted.
Why always put the confessions on the same level as scripture when they are not?
Anonymous at 7:43PM, Scripture is God's Word. The Lutheran Confessions are the correct explanation of God's Word. A Confessional Lutheran appeals to the Confessions as the correct understanding of the chief articles of Christ's doctrine.
Do you disagree that the Lutheran Confessions are the correct explanation of the chief articles of Christian faith?
If you agree that they are why would you be annoyed that anyone would appeal to them to test the spirits?
If you don't, what do you disagree with?
Recommended reading is the Preface to the Christian Book of Concord found here: http://www.bookofconcord.org/boc-intro.php
Why suggest the confessions are out of sync with Scripture when the are not?
Excellent question, Dan.
Laity and clergy in the Lutheran synods object to the Book of Concord being used as refutation of false doctrine and as a benchmark for determining Lutheran Orthodoxy because the BOC doesn't allow wiggle room on the chief articles of Christian faith. Positive and Negative theses do not allow personal interpretation and speculation which they have been accustom to using on Scripture. Many in the Lutheran churches are not Lutheran. The Lutheran synods are confrontation-less, they avoid controversy over keeping doctrine pure and practice right. They chase after unity at the cost of Christ's doctrine and eventually at the cost of eternal life.
From the Preface to the BOC:
"3] Afterwards many churches and schools embraced and defended this Confession as a symbol of the present time in regard to the chief articles of faith, especially those involved in controversy with the Romanists and various corruptions of the heavenly doctrine [sects], and with perpetual agreement have appealed to it without any controversy and doubt. The doctrine comprised in it, which they knew both to be supported by firm testimonies of Scripture, and to be approved by the ancient and accepted symbols, they have also constantly judged to be the only and perpetual consensus of the truly believing Church, which was formerly defended against manifold heresies and errors, and is now repeated."
Very few confess this anymore. It's a sign of the times.
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