Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Sometimes God Says "Hey!" - BOREmeister Ski.Shares...":
(W)ELS
Lastly, we promised to Believe in Our Future. And to do so, we continue to engage with individuals from all walks of life in our mission of bringing them together for a common cause. We are engaging the community to partner with us in developing our students into strong individuals, morally equipped to live in the increasingly globalized world, while, in turn, we continue to challenge our students that they themselves believe in that blessed future.
So, in the end, it truly is a new day at the Ecumenical Center. And I would like to use this opportunity to thank you—and all others—who have, in big and small ways, helped move us forward toward assuring a sustainable future for the ecumenical vision that was born over 40 years ago.
Midweek Moment of Prayer is a weekly Protestant service
Catholic Mass is held each Sunday
In the Path of the Buddha is a weekly meditation and discussion session
Make It So is a discussion-based program focusing on the moral and ethical dilemmas confronted by the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in “Star Trek: The Next
Generation.”
Small Catholic Communities are weekly, men’s and women’s, group discussions
Faculty & Staff Ecumenical Dialogue Meeting
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Pastors Meeting
Christ Living Among
Students (CLAS) is a
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran
Synod (WELS) student group.
Fox Valley Friends (Quakers) is a religious movement best known for its peacefulness and social activism, having been instrumental in rights of slaves, women, prisoners, and homosexuals.
Lena Mennonites is a group of Christian Anabaptists
Eckankar – “soul’s whole purpose in this world is to find divine love”
Latter-day Saints Student Association is a club to help UWGB community
etc.
etc..
etc...
http://www.ecuwgb.org/documents/EC_Newsletter0912-small.pdf
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LutherRocks said...
Looks like a pretty ripe harvest field to me...what are you inferring? Maybe I'm having a dense Monday....
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GJ - The ancients had a saying, "Even good Homer nods," although nothing was said about Mondays.
The problem, revealed by quotations posted by Brett below, is this - Working with other religions and denominations creates doctrinal indifference. Or alternately, indifference creates unionism.
A denomination has hit bottom when it brags about working with various pagan religions and cults, placing itself on par with every possible attack against the clear, plain message of the Word of God. Pan-religious cooperation was earlier the hallmark of the LCA, but WELS and Missouri enjoy the same freedom from religion.
Cooperation with paganism is the last gasp of Pietism. LCMS DP David Benke confessed that he was not even invited to be in the Yankee Stadium pan-religious fest. They had to find a chair for him and invent a place on the hellish program. Some elements of WELS and Missouri feigned shock at the time, but the WELS student effort at UWM does exactly the same thing and brags about it.
Relgious work with pagans is offensive to all Christians, so this is not the Gospel at work, as WELS might pretend, but apostasy in high gear.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Let's Get Groupy":
ec·u·men·i·cal /ˈɛkyʊˈmɛnɪkəl or, especially Brit., ˈikyʊ-/ Show Spelled
[ek-yoo-men-i-kuhl or, especially Brit., ee-kyoo-] Show IPA
–adjective
1. general; universal.
2. pertaining to the whole Christian church.
3. promoting or fostering Christian unity throughout the world.
4. of or pertaining to a movement (ecumenical movement), esp. among Protestant groups since the 1800s, aimed at achieving universal Christian unity and church union through international interdenominational organizations that cooperate on matters of mutual concern.
5. interreligious or interdenominational: an ecumenical marriage.
6. including or containing a mixture of diverse elements or styles; mixed: an ecumenical meal of German, Italian, and Chinese dishes.
Ecumenism is the same as Unionism and is not Christian and thus neither is it Lutheran. It is a rejection of Christ, His Word. It is also an effort supported and promoted by Satan and his New Age Emergent religion.
"Therefore, do not speak to me of love or friendship when anything is to be detracted from the Word or the faith; for we are told that not love but the Word brings eternal life, God's grace, and all heavenly treasures." 19 " In matters concerning faith we must be invincible, unbending, and very stubborn; indeed, if possible, harder than adamant. But in matters concerning love we should be softer and more pliant than any reed and leaf and should gladly accommodate ourselves to everything." 20 "Doctrine is our only light. It alone enlightens and directs us and shows us the way to heaven. If it is shaken in one quarter (in una parte), it will necessarily be shaken in its entirety (in totum). Where that happens, love cannot help us at all." 21 " But this tender mercy is to be exercised only toward Christians and among Christians, for toward those who reject and persecute the Gospel we must act differently; here I am not permitted to let my love be merciful so as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order. Then it is my duty to contend in earnest and not to yield a hairbreadth." What Luther Says, II, 637f.
Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Let's Get Groupy":
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"Doctrinal indifference is at once the root of unionism and its fruit. Whoever accepts, in theory as well as in practice, the absolute authority of the Scriptures and their unambiguousness with reference to all fundamental doctrines, must be opposed to every form of unionism."
M. Reu, In the Interest of Lutheran Unity, Columbus: The Lutheran Book Concern, 1940, p. 20.
"We find this attitude of tolerance quite frequently among unionists. It is often used to assuage a troubled conscience, one's own as well as that of others; for the unionist declares that every one may continue to hold his own private convictions and merely needs to respect and tolerate those of another. This attitude is totally wrong, for it disregards two important factors: (a) in tolerating divergent doctrines one either denies the perspicuity and clarity of the Scriptures, or one grants to error the right to exist alongside of truth, or one evidences indifference over against Biblical truth by surrendering its absolute validity; and (b) in allowing two opposite views concerning one doctrine to exist side by side, one has entered upon an inclined plane which of necessity leads ever further into complete doctrinal indifference, as may plainly be seen from the most calamitous case on record, viz., the Prussian Union."
M. Reu, In the Interest of Lutheran Unity, Columbus: The Lutheran Book Concern, 1940, p. 20.
"Unionism is characterized by these marks: It fails to confess the whole truth of the divine Word; it fails to reject and denounce every opposing error; it assigns error equal right with truth and creates the impression of church fellowship and of unity of faith where they do not exist." (Wisconsin Synod, Prayer Fellowship, Tract No. 10, 1954)
Francis Pieper, The Difference Between Orthodox And Heterodox Churches, and Supplement, Coos Bay, Oregon: St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1981, p. 64.
These quotes were kelmed from Ichabod over many years.
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GJ - Tim Blende condemns me for quoting Reu on this topic. Do ya suppose it has something to do with his slavish plagiarism of Groeschel?
