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Confessional leaders are rocking Missouri and WELS.
Steadfast Lutherans:
It came to my attention not long ago that The Lutheran Hour has extended a call to Rev. Dr. Dean Nadasdy, the Senior Pastor of Woodbury Lutheran Church to be the next speaker (see here for proof). Dr. Nadasdy taught at CSL from 1997-2000. He served on the Board for Communication Services from 2001-2003. In 2004 he was elected 3rd VP of the Synod. In 2007 he was elected 4th VP of the Synod.
The Minnesota South District of the LCMS has an interesting situation that characterizes the conflict that has been brought about in our church through the laissez faire supervision of President Kieschnick. In the name of innovation and the pursuit of copying Bill Hybels’ popularized Christianity, the LCMS is allowing all sorts of funky churches to pop up that really do not look anything like church at all. In the Minnesota South District this trend has reached an interesting new low.
The Alley is a “church” sponsored by Pastor Dean Nadasdy and Woodbury Lutheran Church in the Twin Cities. Conspicuous by their absence are the words “Church” and “Lutheran” in the name of the “church.” This reflects the intentional mindset of establishing a “no-church church.” This is such a silly notion that it hardly needs critique. It is oxymoronic in the way of “lay minister.” (By definition you are either a laymen or a minister.) What we wish to point out here is something else that is missing from this “no-church church,” the new LCMS hymnal. Those of us who have been watching this silly nose dive away from the traditional liturgical church are not surprised by this. What is surprising is that according to the policy of the Minnesota South District, The Alley must use the LSB if it wants to receive mission funding from the District and be welcomed into the synod by the District. Before we get to that here is a little more on the naming of this “church.”
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I knew I shouldn’t have bothered going to thealley.org because it would just frustrate me, but I did it anyway. Here is what they have planned for this Sunday:
“On Sunday December 19th we are canceling church as usual to BE the church.
We will be forgoing our typical Sunday plan to spend the day worshipping with our hearts and our hands.
More specifically we plan to spend our normal worship time working shoulder to shoulder in Jesus name and assembling sandwiches for the homeless.
Here are the details:
When:
Sunday December 19th. Starting times will reflect our normal worship schedule and be at 9:00a and 10:45a in Cottage Grove and 6:30p in the Midway.
What:
Our goal is make at least 5,000 sandwiches for the homeless. That’s 5,000 people fed!
Why:
To worship by serving together shoulder to shoulder in Jesus name. ”
Now forgive me for asking the most obvious question here, but WHY CAN’T THIS SERVICE TIME BE DONE AFTER THE “NORMAL” WORSHIP SERVICE!?
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GJ - Does this remind anyone of The CORE crew taking off and having no church because they were busy learning from the false teachers they adore?
Or their video of a man hauling his baggage to The CORE, struggling through the doors, bringing it in, only to find it empty?
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Thanksgiving Services
Wednesday, November 24, 7:30 p.m.
Ecumenical Worship at St. Ambrose Catholic Church
Corner of Bailey and County Road 19, Woodbury
Thursday, November 25, 9:00 a.m.
Woodbury Lutheran Worship, Main Sanctuary
Dean Nadasdy, Senior Pastor
http://www.woodburylutheran.org/newsletter_pdfs/monthly/2010_11.pdf
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(W)ELS is only a few years behind the LCMS in their journey into apostacy. Here's what the (W)ELS has to look forward to:
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Brett Meyer said...
How about this (W)ELS quote:
"Long ago God already forgave every man his sin, believer and unbeliever alike. Nothing more remains to be done by the sinner himself before the anger of God is appeased. Therefore, a Christian can go to any man on earth and say to him, “Your sins are forgiven.”
The Absolution in the Theology and Practice of the Reformation
(W)ELS - Pastor Edwin Lehmann
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/LehmannReformation.pdf
Right now I'm picturing the Lutheran Synods telling the Antichrist, the Roman Catholic Pope - "Holy Father, your sins are forgiven."
Wait, I'm being told that the LCMS already greeted the Antichrist in the name of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
"I am grateful to be greeted by the Pope through my bishop. Most members of the LCMS are likewise proud to be acknowledged and recognized by the world’s most widely recognized Christian leader. With two billion Christians in the world, it would be easy for any Pope not to know that there is a Missouri Synod. After all, we are less than three million. There are more than a billion Roman Catholics. There are seventy million Lutherans, divided into more than a hundred separate bodies. It is something of an achievement for any non-American to know anything at all about the Missouri Synod. I wonder what Benedict does know about us.
Does he know, for instance, that we still have a few who insist that our 16th century Confessions attributed the pejorative “Anti-Christ” to all popes for all times. If Benedict does know that, then he is to be admired for obeying the Bible’s command, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
http://www.lutheranforum.org/articles/john-hannah/Please_Greet_Missouri/
Oh, in these last few days of a mad old world the judgement has begun in the Lutheran Synods.
Friday, December 17, 2010 4:29:00 PM GMT+11:00
