Spener's unionism and doctrinal laxity grew like kudzu.
LPC has left a new comment on your post "Clueless History of the Missouri Synod Civil War":
James,
Jer 17: 5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
It does not matter even if the so-called "Steadfast Lutherans" fail.
Faith is a fight. It has nothing to do if the so-called "Steadfast" brings things around because new ones who will pervert the Gospel will sprout so, it is a constant fight.
B.M.
The same goes for each of us, Extra Nos and Ichabod too. Remaining steadfast and faithful to Scripture as the Norm of Christian faith and the Confessions as the Normed Norm the Lord will work His will through the Means of Grace, purely taught and rightly distributed.
Right on, bro. We are not exempted from being faithful to the Scripture and our Confession.
But Christ's Word will never pass away and enduring in the one true faith in Christ alone is a gift of God by the grace of the Holy Spirit no matter what tomorrow brings. That's why we struggle for purity in Christ's central doctrine, His chief article of Christian faith, Justification by Faith Alone
Amen.
LPC
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Clueless History of the Missouri Synod Civil War":
James states, "This group gives me hope, but is my hope in vain?"
Yes, if your hope is in the group or in the men and women who are active members.
If your hope is in the bedrock of Scripture, Christ's Word purely taught and Sacraments rightly distributed then No, your hope is not in vain. You're hope is in the right place and with the Christian Church made up of all who, by God's grace, place all their trust in Christ alone we can say, "The Lord's will be done!"
If the Steadfast Lutherans remain faithful to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions their efforts will always accomplish God's will, whether that is working contrition and faith in those God calls or hardening of the hearts in those God does not call and who reject Christ, His Word, His Church and His doctrines. The Lord's will be done.
The same goes for each of us, Extra Nos and Ichabod too. Remaining steadfast and faithful to Scripture as the Norm of Christian faith and the Confessions as the Normed Norm the Lord will work His will through the Means of Grace, purely taught and rightly distributed. To hope in Christ that things will change, the false teachers will be exposed and rejected, false practice will be exposed and rejected, God's pure Word will be exposed, taught and exalted, right practice will be exposed, supported and promoted is never in vain and always the right thing to do. To expect that it could or would remain that way is not in line with Scripture where in Matt 24 Christ's tells us of the end times when the hypocrites in the church turn against Christ's Word and faithful Church.
But Christ's Word will never pass away and enduring in the one true faith in Christ alone is a gift of God by the grace of the Holy Spirit no matter what tomorrow brings. That's why we struggle for purity in Christ's central doctrine, His chief article of Christian faith, Justification by Faith Alone.
In Christ,
Brett
