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The LCMS (or some synod within a synod part of LCMS) is sending a missionary to Philadelphia (video link below). The way the LCMS runs missions, they require a million bucks to field each missionary. I understand the IC gets a big cut of the pie. I cringe whenever I see President Harrison go on a Mercy Journey since he's probably distributing a million buck each time. He ought to go on a Mercy Journey to his own seminaries and distribute a million in cash to needy seminary students:
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=14076
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GJ - How about blowing a million dollars suing four elderly women, so Missouri can steal the church property?
There is no pizzazz in supporting seminary students. World missions create free world travel opportunities.
The LCA world hunger boss managed to travel to every country in the world, to inspect his field of labor.
Pope John the Malefactor went on world trips to celebrate the harrowing of the Little Sect on the Prairie.
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Religions that idolize buildings and money despise the Word of God.
The ironic part of the whole thing is, according to my understanding, the LCMS missionaries have to largely pay their own way. If they don't kick in their own money, they get called home. Where is the synod's money going? To pay six-figure salaries for a bunch of pencil-pushers? Why can't guys that are actually schooled in theology, namely the CRM guys, be sent to proclaim the Gospel? My understanding is that the historical Lutheran missionaries were ordained.
Is there a religion left with honesty and integrity?
Yes. Orthodox Lutheranism, but it's practiced virtually nowhere.
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