The Roman Catholic Difference

Lutherans use their media money
to promote anti-Lutheran doctrine.

I went to school with Roman Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers (as in Christian Brothers, the teaching bunch). They are never as ardent as the converts. In fact, many of the Roman religious are secret Lutherans.

However, when people want to know about religion, the Catholic Church uses a vast network of apologists, recruiters, websites, and books to immerse people in the alleged truth of Roman Catholicism. They also have professors, at such seminaries as Concordia Ft. Wayne and Concordia St. Louis, who will start people on the road to Rome, even if they have to take a bypass through Constantinople.

The so-called conservative synods (LCMS, ELS, WELS) imagine that evangelism means learning from Fuller, Trinity, Mars Hill, Willow Creek, Saddleback, Granger, Groeschel, and Stanley. So these synods teach that:

1. Lutheran doctrine, worship, and practice are dead wrong.
   
2. Pietistic cell groups are essential.
   
3. Women should be pastors, teach men, and usurp authority.

Given those facts, which no one can refute, what will the results be?

The results will be exactly what we see today:

1. Conservative Lutheran clergy are joining Rome.
   
2. Lutheran laity are leaving the visible Lutheran church.
   
3. Roman Catholicism is growing and thriving.

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All of the so-called conservative synods (LCMS, ELS, WELS) have their bad apples and renegade pastors like Jeske. That does not mean they deserve to be painted with the same broad brush, nor ascribed the same bad practices.

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GJ - I toss bad apples out.

A little leaven, to change the metaphor, leaveneth the whole lump.

In the Arizona-California-Nevada district of WELS, six pastors were yanked by the previous DP.

And yet, Jeff Gunn has been promoted to the board at Wisconsin Lutheran College, along with two members, one who is now the president. Kelm has a newly invented job there.

But Gunn has not been disciplined at all, because he is the darling of Church and Change. Rich pals have subsidized his folly, just as Arizona Lutheran Academy (WELS) has provided a home.

The best way to judge a denomination is not from its documents but from its actual practices, which reveal its heart-felt doctrine.

ELCA's latest plunge into gay lib is a perfect example.