LPC has left a new comment on your post "From Rogue Lutheran - Sweet Is Just as Big in Miss...":
Pr. Greg,
This is truly a turn of events. I encountered Sweet while I was a Charismaniac and have listened to some of his teachings. He can make your tears jerk. The guy is an Enthusiast.
Then a few years ago, I saw Sweet being interviewed by an LC-MS Seminary on the internet. They seem to be buddy buddy with him.
I think the reason why Sweet is flavor of the month at LC-MS is because once UOJ is established, then life becomes boring and as human beings, we need some things to pre-occupy us. Sweet is the fruit of that.
LPC
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Rogue Lutheran has a good article here on the LCMS promoting New Ager Leonard Sweet, a favorite of Paul Calvin Kelm.
Missouri, WELS, and the ELS lack doctrinal leadership. Lutherans have been waiting decades for something to be done about the synods being toadies for Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, Trinity Deerfield, and the rest of the beehives of Enthusiasm.
Instead, the synods skimmed offering money to train their leaders at those bastions of false doctrine. Now so many are babtized into Groeschel and Stetzer that the leaders refuse to address the issue.
The Intrepids posted a polite evisceration of the official WELS sermon, recently sent out to promote
The ELS, LCMS, and WELS agree on UOJ, which overturns justification by faith.
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From Intrepid Lutherans:
#4 – "Have you done everything in your power to share the gospel?" What an unscriptural guilt trip to send God's people on! How does one even know what's in one's power when it comes to sharing the gospel? When phrased this way, the Christian is under constant obligation to be "evangelizing" from dawn till dusk, and even afterwards, if it's "in his power" to stay awake a little later and continue fulfilling the "sharing the gospel" Law.
- (This paragraph given word for word) Yet, see the trouble for what is it. We remain the redeemed of God. Our eternity remains secure. Our names are written in the book of life. Your sins are forgiven. So are your neighbor’s sins. Even more, God has made sure that angel after angel after angel has flown into your life to make sure you remain in Jesus. Our parents, our teachers, our pastors, and even our children are God’s messengers to us, proclaiming “Jesus has forgiven you for all your sins. Yes, he forgives you for the sins of timidity, fear, and selfishness.” He sends to you angels to personally speak the words of the gospel, just like he did for the shepherds. There were just a few shepherds in the field the night of Jesus’ birth, yet God thought, “It is worth it for me to send thousands of angels to proclaim peace on earth.” Your God loves you and comes to you through angels.
I classified this paragraph as Gospel, but parts of it are questionable. First, there is no call to repentance or mention of it (even though no sins have yet been identified, according to the Scriptures). The thought process goes: "You have sinned, but that sin doesn't harm you or your relationship with God, because your sins are already forgiven, so don't worry about it." This is not the proper application of the Gospel. Christ's atoning death on the cross and satisfaction for sin is mentioned nowhere.
Then it goes on to say, "So are your neighbor's sins." What does this mean? To whom is the Gospel being applied? If he means the person sitting next to me in church, for what purpose does he assure me that his sins are forgiven? If he means my atheist neighbor, then he's simply wrong. My atheist neighbor does not have the status of a forgiven child of God, for my atheist neighbor still rejects the Son of God and remains condemned in the devil's kingdom. If he wanted to say that Jesus died for my atheist neighbor and wants him to be saved, too, then he should have said that.
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GJ - This UOJ they kill for is nothing more than an anti-Confessional, anti-Biblical, watered down version of Universalism. ELCA teaches the same thing, with a little more boldness.
The emulsifying pastors, who make oil and water mix so well, are the ones who pose as confessional Lutherans while peddling their UOJ. The result is - Leonard Sweet.
Two of the shills for UOJ, Paul McCain and Jay Webber, stalk the web, warning people against those who agree with the Book of Concord. Posting a blog comment is so much easier than earning a degree or writing a book.
Thus the omnipresence of Sweet in the conservative synods is the direct result of McCain, Webber, Buchholz, and the DPs and CPs of UOJdom.
