These guys worship Walther like he was a god. Walther according to what you posted is a criminal. No other American synod has idolized a man like the LCMS followed by WELS and the ELS. No wonder they cannot get justification by faith right, they are all to busy telling folks they are forgiven when born and rerunning the predestination battle over and over again. I guess Walther was hooked on that because he could not get past the fact that we are saved by faith.
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They are also too busy dealing in real estate:
http://ulcmn.org/Files/Save%20ULC%20Files/District%20Sells%20to%20Doran.pdf
Great quote from the new movie "Contagion":
"You're not a writer, you're a blogger. Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation."
That's especially true of bloggers from Arkansas.
I keep thinking of you, Bruce, regarding the sale of ULC at UMinn. I really want to leave a post on BJS asking them, "How's that congregational polity working out for you?" But, the Walther venerators would just throw a hissy fit.
So if blogging is just graffiti with punctuation, I guess commenting on blogs would be comparable to writing your name in the snow then?
Narrow,
Just looking at the web site who has a picture of Walther says what you planned to do was a no no.
LPC
Is that a dare, LPC? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
As someone who has left the LCMS, I can now look at this stuff from a distance and chuckle about the paradoxical leadership, although it's really quite sad.
If an issue relating to Doctrine or practice comes to light, the leaders say, "My ecclesial authority is advisory in nature only, so I can't do anything about it." For example, it appears that Benke's "Reunion Tour," ten years after Yankee Stadium, was known about by the higher-ups. Was there or will there be any discipline?
On the other hand, if a hot real estate sale (ULC UMinn) or money is at stake, the LCMS leadership can become hierarchical in a heartbeat.
One can only conclude that the LCMS is a political and business organization. Now that the "confessionals" have the leadership they want, virtually no one will leave.
Although I'm no Kieschnick fan, had he been the SP a few weeks ago during Benke's stunt, the "confessionals" would be having a hissy fit and demanding someone's head. Now they'll just grumble about it with the understanding that "things are trending toward orthodoxy in the LCMS."
Are the clergy and laity loyal to Scripture and the Confessions, or is their loyalty for the institution?
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