I'm sorry, but does a "confessional" Lutheran Synod
have any business seeking financial advice from Evangelical Protestant Dave
Ramsey? Yes, we should certainly be responsible stewards of the financial
gifts God has given us. But is legalism going to be promoted? For example, are
those attending going to be told that God will financially punish them for not
"tithing" (their strict 10%)?
The fact that the Indiana District is going to reimburse the sem students for this is disturbing to me, especially since the Indiana District is one of the more "conservative" districts of the LCMS. Perhaps I am making too much out of this, but coming from a Methobapticostal background, I can accurately guess what this will be about. Yeah, the guy has good advice, but in a Left Kingdom sense. I hope he does not mix the Right Kingdom in with his advice.
Perhaps CTSFW shouldn't rob its students with ridiculous tuition to support "The Club"; and perhaps the LCMS should provide more than one-percent of its budget to assist sem students and their families. Then Dave Ramsey wouldn't be necessary.
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GJ - Don't be so narrow-minded! The non-Lutherans have all the answers. Check out the experts loved by Missouri, WELS, the Little Sect on the Prairie, and the CLC (sic):
- Roman Catholic Bishop Weakland and his merry band of priestly Sodomites. WLC.
- Another bishop marching in religious procession and speaking at the Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie, Bethany.
- Leonard Sweet, space age Methodist at Concordia St. Louis.
- C. Peter Wagner training the troops for WELS. Pentecostal Babtist.
- Moo weaning Lutherans off the English Luther Bible.
- Hybels teaching the lot of them that a God without wrath sent Christ without a cross to a world without sin.
- Methodist Groeschel writing sermons for Glende, Ski, and many more.
- Valleskey dumpster diving at Fuller, calling it Spoiling the Egyptians.
