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OnWord - About Us: [GJ - One of the leaders is a DP that Jack Cascione worked hard to get elected. Buengler marched in procession, robed, soon after that election, with ELCA potentates.]
OnWord is a communication resource of Mission Advocates - lay people and church professionals, women and men, participating in the Mission of God (Missio Dei) and committed to encouraging a missional emphasis for the present and future of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. [GJ - Why is a phrase in English translated into Latin? These poseurs get rid of all the ancient Sunday names in Latin - Septuagesima, etc - and throw Missio Dei at us. I get it - missional is Fuller Seminary, so Missio Dei is a smokescreen. High church, Fuller style - the guy in the Hawaiian shirt, playing the keyboard, knows some Latin.]
Mission Advocates embraces the historic doctrinal commitments of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Several of these commitments are summarized here as they speak to the emphasis of Mission Advocates.
- That the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God.
- That the center of faith is the Gospel of Jesus Christ - the "chief article" of the Christian faith and the "article on which the church stands or falls." [GJ - Justification by faith is the chief article. This section could be applied to any sect.]
- That the Lutheran Confessions (The Book of Concord) are drawn from God’s Word and are a true and binding exposition of Holy Scripture. [GJ - But see what these debbils say later.]
- That the primary mission of the church is to make disciples of every nation by bearing witness to Jesus Christ. Other necessary activities of the church are to serve the church’s primary mission and its goal that all people will believe and confess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. [GJ - Manufacturing disciples, the anti-Means of Grace living bobble translation, is not the primary mission of the church. Teaching and baptizing in the Name of the Trinity is.]
- That there is one holy Christian Church on earth who’s (sic - whose) Head is Jesus Christ. [GJ - They cannot get one little page of English right. Sad.]
- That Christians are the Church and that they alone originally possess the spiritual gifts and rights which Christ has gained for, and given to, His Church. The Scripture teaches that the Priesthood of All Believers is the Church in action (1 Peter 2:9-10). Apostle Paul reminds all believers: "All things are yours," (1 Cor. 3:21, 22) and Christ Himself commits to all believers the authority to forgive sins – the keys of the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 16:13‐ 19, 18:17‐20, John 20:22, 23), and commissions all believers to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments (Matt. 28:19, 20; 1 Cor. 11:23‐25). [GJ - The crowds must have been appointed by Jesus and trained as apostles, too.]
- That the public ministry is the office by which the Word of God is preached and the Sacraments are administered under the authority and in the name of a Christian congregation. Although the office of the ministry is established by God, it possesses no power other than the Word of God (1 Pet. 4:11). Regarding ordination we teach that it is not a divine ordinance, but a commendable ecclesiastical ordinance through which the Body of Christ, through Word and Sacraments, is equipped to participate in the Mission of God - bringing the hope of Christ to the world. [GJ - I distinctly remember ordination being called a sacrament in the Book of Concord. Ordinance is a familiar Calvinist term.]
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