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"I am a member of the Gustavus Board of Trustees, having just completed a three-year term as chairman.
You all probably are aware of the old saying that those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk. I'm going to violate this maxim, if only just a little.
The student-created skits depicted in the videos were not appropriate. Period. We were not aware of them before a student posted the videos on YouTube. The skits will not be part of orientation again. While they seem to represent the views of some individuals, they assuredly do not represent a college perspective."
James_Gale ALPB Contribution Leader
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GJ - He wrote more and people commented. In contrast, MLC uploaded their video again, after pretending to take it down. In the interim, they created a FB page and played the video there.
This reminds me of a conversation with a WELS member. He told his family, "We have lost the Gospel."
The WELS/ELS approach is to ignore the implications of their apostasy, spin the story with fake contrition or outright denial, and bury any leakers in slime, leaving them in the deep-freezer of shunning.
"26] Therefore true, saving faith is not in those who are without contrition and sorrow, and have a wicked purpose to remain and persevere in sins; but true contrition precedes, and genuine faith is in or with true repentance [justifying faith is in those who repent truly, not feignedly].
27] Love is also a fruit which surely and necessarily follows true faith."
Formula of Concord, Article III, The Righteousness of Faith. SD.
The WELS/ELS response to their lies being exposed is to punish those who tell the truth. Is this godly contrition? The abuse, which is taken for granted and accepted as good corporate behavior, shows they lack the Gospel entirely. In telling everyone they are already forgiven, they deny God's grace in the Means of Grace. They mention the Means of Grace, but the Word and Sacraments are nothing more than a little red caboose at the end of their long train of jumbled opinions.
As one pastor said of the Mrs. Tabor's murder, "That was a long time ago" as if those who mourn the victim could forget. How many have given up on the Christian faith upon seeing the Big Wise Ones cover up adultery and murder? Causing the little ones to stumble - could that apply to synod officials, memory-loss pastors, and get-along-go-along laity?
KJV Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
