Daniel Baker has left a new comment on your post "Academic Inbreeding in the Lutheran Synods":
I traveled to Appleton this past Sunday to see how bad the CORE really is for myself. I am going to write a formal review of my experience at a later date, but suffice it to say he didn't even try to hide the reference to that lifechurch site. He used the EXACT same image of the ravens, only he added a small "CORE" logo on the top right.
I really tried to give the service an honest, open assessment. But between popcorn chewing during the prayer, the watery, emotionless, doctrine-less songs, and the law focused sermon (I can count the words which referenced Christ and the gospel in the sermon on one hand), I left the "service" nauseated.
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WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "Academic Inbreeding in the Lutheran Synods":
You want to practice strict fellowship? Mark and avoid Ski, Jeske, Glende, and Parlow. Then again The Core is just a "little bit" of a WELS church. "Little bit" is defined as "exploratory" in the official WELS church listings. There is nothing wrong with starting a mission or daughter congregation if we are motivatated by the Holy Spirit. These new exploratory churches are just code words for pastors in jeans, contemporary services, entertainment music, and worst of all, copying unorthodox sectarian sermons. These teachers are guilty of liberalism. When these teachers start demanding that all are to conform to these practices, the issue of "liberal legalism" will stand before us. Intrepids has a new post taking up the issue of adding to God's Word.
I'm with Brett on the descision to hire teachers from within. Of course you may bring in those from the outside, such as Bill Hybels, Leonard Sweet, Martin Marty, Archbishop Weakland, and Ed Stetzer. We need the teachers that are within our ranks. By this I mean those teaching the Word in its purity and teaching the confessions as stated in the BOC.
For further detail I commend you to read The Third Use Of The Law. (Armin W. Schuetze) This can be found in the WLS essay file. It is thirty pages and an excelent appendage to Pastor GJ's and Intrepid's latest posts. Schuetze's communication skills surpass those of the church lady's. You can't go wrong when you use Scripture and Luther's Works as your sources.
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
You want to practice strict fellowship? Mark and avoid Ski, Jeske, Glende, and Parlow. Then again The Core is just a "little bit" of a WELS church. "Little bit" is defined as "exploratory" in the official WELS church listings. There is nothing wrong with starting a mission or daughter congregation if we are motivatated by the Holy Spirit. These new exploratory churches are just code words for pastors in jeans, contemporary services, entertainment music, and worst of all, copying unorthodox sectarian sermons. These teachers are guilty of liberalism. When these teachers start demanding that all are to conform to these practices, the issue of "liberal legalism" will stand before us. Intrepids has a new post taking up the issue of adding to God's Word.
I'm with Brett on the descision to hire teachers from within. Of course you may bring in those from the outside, such as Bill Hybels, Leonard Sweet, Martin Marty, Archbishop Weakland, and Ed Stetzer. We need the teachers that are within our ranks. By this I mean those teaching the Word in its purity and teaching the confessions as stated in the BOC.
For further detail I commend you to read The Third Use Of The Law. (Armin W. Schuetze) This can be found in the WLS essay file. It is thirty pages and an excelent appendage to Pastor GJ's and Intrepid's latest posts. Schuetze's communication skills surpass those of the church lady's. You can't go wrong when you use Scripture and Luther's Works as your sources.
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
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GJ - My point about academic incest was that no Lutheran from the outside is welcome, but false teachers opposed to the Lutheran Confessions are paraded as the solution.
Good teachers from each synod are ignored because the apostates want more apostates teaching their apostasy.
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norcal763 has left a new comment on your post "Review of The CORE":
Dear WELS Church Lady:
WELS is a one-church synod. Communing at a WELS altar assumes total confessional unity with every other member of WELS, including Ski and Glende. The only way to mark and avoid Ski and Glende is to mark and avoid the Synod that will never discipline them.
Jim Becker
Dear WELS Church Lady:
WELS is a one-church synod. Communing at a WELS altar assumes total confessional unity with every other member of WELS, including Ski and Glende. The only way to mark and avoid Ski and Glende is to mark and avoid the Synod that will never discipline them.
Jim Becker
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GJ - Stop funding the people who enable Ski, Glende, Parlow, Jeske, Kelm, Olson, Bivens, Huebner, et al.
WELS has adopted the Missouri Compromise, where two opposing confessions are allowed to work together and pretend the other one does not exist.
