Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Denigrating Faith Accompanies Rejection of the Mea...":
Another failed Synodical Pope, Gurgle, flogged his sect with regular editorials using the same theme. He denigrated the real treasure of the Church, the Means of Grace, so he could gather and waste the material treasure of the members.
The Lutheran clergy picked up the ball and ran with it. The command to make disciples led them to ignore a command Christ actually did make which was "feed my sheep" spoken in a Trinitarian declaration in John 21. Generally all activity is focused toward bringing in new members, new money. The churches do not operate on what God has given but on what they think God wants them to do in order to accomplish making disciples. The churches lead, God is to follow with His blessings. No great surprise when they've perverted the central doctrine. Likewise they abandon the sheep God did give them for whatever they think is at the end of the rainbow. Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Rick Warren, Mark Jeske they are at the end of the rainbow. LCMS Pres Kieschnick's quote above is much the same as you will hear all around the (W)ELS on any given Sunday. Not feeding the sheep gathered with God's pure Word and Sacraments but charging them to go and gather more any way they can. The seed, God's Word, is discarded because in vain they do worship God(me), teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:9
In reference to the Lutherans "Making Disciples" here is Christ's command which is pure Efficacy of the Means of Grace Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: KJV
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California wrote:
"Brett Meyer hit the nerve center which opened the gates to the rocky path for synods and congregations since they have all dispatched the KJV to the dust bin of history and took up using the contemporary translations of the day including NKJV which distort Matthew 28:19 among other things. It's been downhill all the way making man responsible for making disciples rather than exercising the means of grace and leaving the making of disciples to God. Even with an awakening beginning to stir in Lutheran Synods in reaction to the fruits of apostasy, it will be for naught unless the issue of Bible translations is revisited in view of the the influence of false prophets who prevailed in the late 19th Century to undermine the Word itself through Bible Translation of perverted manuscript evidence. It took awhile for the effects to be felt in U.S., but when it did, consequences are becoming obvious for even the complacent to see. Dealing with the symptoms is useful, but If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?"
