ELCA Member Involved in NKJV Audio Bible

ELCA NEWS SERVICE

July 2, 2010

ELCA Member Directs Award-Winning Audio Bible Project
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CHICAGO (ELCA) -- JoBe Cerny said it took him about 10 seconds to say yes to a project that would shape his life for three years -- directing more than 600 actors in the largest audio production of the Bible ever produced. The result was "The Word of Promise" Audio Bible, an award-winning dramatic presentation featuring well-known celebrity actors on 79 CDs with 98 hours of audio.

This was new ground for Cerny, an actor, director, producer and writer, and member of Zion Lutheran Church, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation in Deerfield, Ill. You may have seen him in movies such as "Somewhere in Time" or "My Best Friend's Wedding," or on television, where he once starred in a well-known commercial for Cheer. You've probably heard Cerny's voice -- his is that of the "Pillsbury Doughboy," a role he has had since the 1970s.

None of those roles compared to his work as director of Thomas Nelson's Audio Bible, a Protestant version based on the New King James Version (NKJV). The multi-year project culminated in the release of the Audio Bible in October 2009.

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GJ - WELS and Missouri are abandoning the horrid NIV, but doctrinal clarity does not seem to be the issue. They are trading the NIV for a retread of the RSV - the ESV.

The New KJV follows the language patterns of the KJV, which is the Tyndale in disguise. Tyndale is closest to Luther.

Paul McCain MDiv likes to portray himself as a pastor when he is not, and confessional, which is even funnier. He is promoting the ESV for Missouri, or at least fronting for it. Otten, his old political ally, is still beating the drums for the Beck.

The constantly changing translations, which also change from printing to printing, have made memorization almost impossible.

Justification by Faith Is Simple - Only the Sem Robots Fail To Grasp It

UOJ Stormtroopers stand on the Book of Concord,
to keep people from reading it.

When WELS Pastor Papenfuss (the pope's foot) was stirring up a national controversy over guilt-free saints in Hell, he admitted, "I never heard anything about UOJ until I went to seminary."

The families who agreed with the Bible and the Book of Concord were kicked out of WELS for not subscribing to the Kokomo Statements, which are no more ridiculous than the Missouri and ELS versions of the same thing - Halle's Professor Knapp.

I understand Papenfuss next went to Africa, to teach them that the Hottentots and Judas Iscariot were already justified.

Justification by Faith
The Gospel is the message that Christ has died for our sins. When this is preached to adults, the Holy Spirit creates faith in the hearts of the audience. They receive the Gospel message in faith and are declared innocent by God because of Christ.

Infants also hear the Gospel when they are baptized and become believers. The efficacious Word accomplishes this, just as it does when preaching to adults. The newborn babies are examples to us. If we do not believe as these children do, we cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

The Babtists, who are so dear to the UOJ Stormtroopers, deny infant faith and their justification. These tiny newborns, who trust and love their parents, turning to hear their voices, cannot trust and love God or hear His Word, according to the Babtists.

We call the Word and Sacraments Means of Grace because they are the Instruments by which God gives us His grace. The Holy Spirit is always at work in these Instruments and constant in fulfilling God's will. They are Means of Grace because God has appointed them as the way in which He offers His forgiveness, love, and compassion. They are Means of Grace because this forgiveness is not based upon merit.

Someone stays under God's wrath and outside of the Kingdom as long as he remains a unbeliever. As the Parable of the Sower reveals (Matthew 13), many lose the Gospel for various reasons, which are not due to God's failure or the ineffectiveness of the Word.

The Scriptures and the Confessions teach that we should broadcast the Word, trusting in God to accomplish His will. If anyone does this, in spite of the Enthusiasts' best efforts, the Stormtroopers fly into a rage and disparage the person who relies on the Word instead of their opinions - but they do it in the name of love.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Justification by Faith Is Simple - Only the Sem Ro...":

In all the versions of UOJ promoted in the Lutheran churches the distribution and application of God's grace, upon the whole unbelieving world, outside of the Holy Spirit working through the Word is universal.

Scripture condemns this as the Lutheran Confessions confirm.

Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

The Smalcald Articles, Confession:
3] And in those things which concern the spoken, outward Word, we must firmly hold that God grants His Spirit or grace to no one, except through or with the preceding outward Word, in order that we may [thus] be protected against the enthusiasts, i.e., spirits who boast that they have the Spirit without and before the Word, and accordingly judge Scripture or the spoken Word, and explain and stretch it at their pleasure, as Muenzer did, and many still do at the present day, who wish to be acute judges between the Spirit and the letter, and yet know not what they say or declare.
http://www.bookofconcord.org/smalcald.php#confession