A luxury car is their first choice.
John Braun is stumbling through an address right now. Ineptitude makes everyone say, "I could read a script better than that." Sorrow and pity make them forget that he is delivering more poison.
Once again, he delivered the UOJ message, with some slides, so no one misses the point.
Braun tried to say no one else teaches UOJ, but the Big Four all teach forgiveness without faith, universal absolution, universal salvation. ELCA is no different from WELS in that regard. That is why they work together so well. Ditto the Little Sect on the Prairie (more UOJ) and Missouri (with statues and shrines for the UOJ Kidnapper, Walther).
But I am not yet done. I have read from the Holy of Holies, the WELS Essay Files. (Pause for everyone say, "I am so thankful for being in WELS.') But I have also read hundreds of modern theology books, guided by students of Barth and Tillich.
The mainline churches--the ones behind the Gay Communist National Council of Churches (New RSV, too) and also behind the Stalinist World Council of Churches and Geneva world federations--they all teach UOJ too.
My researchers used to ask, "Where did UOJ go after Knapp taught it at Halle University?" The answer is - "It went mainline."
Sorry, Braun, but grace is not defined as forgiveness without faith. That is the definition of Universalism. First of all, Braun knows nothing about theology or obfuscates without shame. Secondly, he cannot teach the Gospel of the Bible. Instead, he parades the apostasy of all mainline groups as the distinct and precious doctrine of WELS alone.
Church and Change will clap him on the back with a hearty "Attaboy."
SP Schroeder will encourage him, because Mark is in the same mode of thinking, sorry to say. Schroeder's pal Jenswold had the congregation reciting UOJ with him during the sermon.
Buchholz is supposed to be the only reforming DP. He is also a UOJ fanatic, so how can he even address the errors of Change and Change? Naturally, he has not done anything more than posture.
Here is the Gospel in a Few Simple Steps.
WELS cannot teach this Gospel because the Pietists cannot accept the efficacy of the Word alone in the Means of Grace.
