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.
Martin Luther Sermons
Bethany Lutheran Hymnal Blog
Bethany Lutheran Church Worship Reformation Seminary - 2024 USA, Canada, Australia, Philippines 10 AM Central - Sunday Service
We use The Lutheran Hymnal and the King James Version
Luther's Sermons: Lenker Edition
Click here for all previous YouTube Videos
Monday, March 14, 2011
Narrow-Minded on Prep Work
Narrow-minded Lutheran has left a new comment on your post "Cell Groups Are Also a Reliable Litmus Test for Pi...":
So I guess if I have a heart attack in the future, I should request ahead of time that the EMT open me up on the way to the hospital to see what's wrong. Why wait to get to the hospital for the cardiac specialist? This is not to say that the EMT's vocation is not God-pleasing, but he's not a cardiac specialist. Since my comments regarding small groups in the below thread are "baseless," this would seem to be a analogous scenario.
I feel sorry for someone who is not "satisfied" by Word and Sacrament; however, I will concede that finding such a parish is becoming increasingly difficult. On the other hand, in congruence with American consumerism, churches sell what most people are wanting in a church: Moralistic therapeutic deism.
Labels:
Means of Grace