From The CORE, Bishop Katie's Blog
“Well, that's a bit of a gray area.”
I was catching up on some blog reading this weekend and came across that phrase a lot. Almost too much. And it got me thinking.
Now, I get that there are things in the Bible that are adiophra (sic) - not really addressed - a.k.a. gray areas. However, I think oftentimes we abuse this phrase. Instead of using it to say it’s an area we can’t really say with certainty is right or wrong and therefore have absolutely no right to tell others whether it’s right or wrong, I wonder if we use it as an excuse. I wonder if we use it as an excuse to allow ourselves to satisfy our desires without guilt. You know like if we are 100% honest with ourselves we probably shouldn’t be doing it but the Bible doesn’t explicitly say it’s forbidden so we call it a gray area and all is well?
I’m not saying everything is black and white, but I’m not sure saying so much is a gray area is the right way to go either. What do you think? Are we using our gray crayons just a little too much?
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GJ - I have not read such illiterate mush since Dorothy Sonntag vexed readers of The Northwestern Lutheran. Then she joined ELCA.
Here is another example of women (who think they are) teaching men in WELS. The term is adiaphora. The appropriate section of the Formula of Concord should be studied, because graduates of The Sausage Factory (examples - Ski, Glende, Ash) always get it wrong. Pretending to be Babtist is not longer an adiaphoron (singular of adiaphora) when there is a confessional crisis.
One might expect Ski to edit Bishop Katie's theological discourses, when he is done framing his latest celeb photo op. Ski does not exhaust himself writing. His blog is DOA and his alleged Twitter account is lifeless.
I cannot blame Ski for copying and pasting his sermons from the Schwaermer super-stars he admires so much. Kelm has done that for decades and always has calls and defenders in the WELS clergy. Why defy the formula for success in WELS?
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Ah, De Oprah - Bishop Katie Teaches Ex Cathedra":
I am aware of a WELS lady who teaches in a local WELS grade school and practices the New Age satanic healing technique called Reiki.
Ask Mrs. Wendland what WELS women should be doing.
March 2008 - Coming Soon - “Heirs Together of God’s Gracious Gift of Life” - This study was written by Prof. Richard Gurgel and Mrs. Kathy Wendland after years of study together with a larger committee. It takes a close look at the equal status and purpose that Men and Women share in God’s church as well as the unique calling that they each have as Men and Women.Page 4
http://www.stpaul-amherst.org/Newsletter/0803newsletter.pdf
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GJ - Richard's (or Kathy Wendland's) "Heirs Together" needed considerable cleaning up before NPH would publish it.
"Apt to teach" does not count with Sausage Factory professors.
