ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Friday, February 11, 2011
HerChurch Video - This Congregation Was Once the Mother Church for All Augustana Missions in the West
The (Swedish)Augustana Synod was named for the Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana) because the founders realized the error of the 19th century Church Growth Movement.
Revivalism and so-called American Lutheranism meant rejecting the liturgy, having a Mourner's Bench near the altar for grand shows of repentance, and abandoning the efficacy of the Word and Sacraments. The 19th century Church Growth Movement was also unionistic to a fault.
The Muhlenberg tradition discovered the Book of Concord again and moved away from the apostasy of revivalism. The Augustana Synod eventually merged with them to form the LCA of 1962.
However, remnants of Pietism, which were already surging in the 1930s, took over and made ELCA what it is today - bankrupt in every possible way.
