Lutherans of Intrepid Heart: Standing on Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions
This is the sort of thing that makes one's Lutheran heart race: Lutheran clergymen and laymen offering their good names and reputations in a public stand on Scripture and the Confessions. It appears that the men of Intrepid Lutherans are calling for open theological discussion on several matters that have been at the center of public controversy for a number of years now -- matters of issue which we will recognized as having been featured and debated at length in forums like Bailing Water, analyzed here on The Finkelsteinery and sometimes exposed on Ichabod and in other forums. They are also calling upon fellow members of the WELS clergy and laity to publicly stand with them.
This is very exciting. I would encourage any and all WELS clergymen and laymen of stout heart and firm confessional conviction to lend their names, and thus also their support, to this bold public venture.
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GJ - I have had non-members attend my adult class simply because I advertised that I would have a series on Christian doctrine. I cannot imagine anything more effective than the efficacious Word of God.
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I've posted this question on the Intrepid Lutherans blog but they haven't posted it yet.
On the blogs Devotion page there is this statement in the last paragraph of the devotion entitled, Homily on Exodus 17:8-16, "Eventually, the power and love of God, and the fear and greed of our Old Adversary combine to give us the peace of knowing that we are saved from the domination of sin, and that the true paradise of heaven awaits us to enjoy forever!"
My concern is with the combining of power and love with fear and greed. The combining of God and Satan to produce peace.
From what I read it is a promotion of WELS UOJ which, as has been clearly shown before, seperates the confessor from Christ. But with it is this new teaching of a blending of God with Satan to produce peace.
We'll see if they post and explain.
Here is IL's response to my question.
Rev. Fr. Spencer said...
Greetings, Brett! Thanks for your comments and questions. I am the author of the devotion that was posted, so I will answer your question on that item. I apologize if I was not clear. The devotion was a truncated version of a much longer sermon, and as sometimes happens, full explanations are not always evident. In any case, all I meant is that sometimes the devil over-reaches, that is, God allows him to push us too far for his own dark purpose, and instead of driving us away from Christ, drives us to our knees, and to Christ's mercy and love. After all, Satan may be smart, but God is smarter, and just as with our Lord's Passion, uses the devil's own ambition and lust for victory to actually seal his defeat. My intention was to give my sheep solace and comfort, so that even in the midst of the ebb and flow of their own good fight of faith, they would hold on to the fact that God will do what it takes to see through safely to their heavenly home. I hope this clarifies the point.
June 2, 2010 9:39 AM
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