Did his feet ever touch the ground?
Narrow-minded Lutheran has left a new comment on your post "Walther - The American Pope, Worshiped as a God":
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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GJ - I was ready to host a Come Home to Rome week at Ichabod for the ELDONids, so they could rejoin the born-again Waltherian leadership. But the Benke issue has returned DOA. They can say, "We were right to leave. No one will do anything about Benke."
The same pastors were ordained in a sect working constantly with the LCA/ALC and then ELCA.
I just looked over the last two issues of Christian News, where Seminex was being replayed again, in details that made my head spin. I am quite familiar with the episode, so I thought, "Let's talk about people and reputations, not about doctrine. That will keep all sides happy and engaged."
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Lutheran named to key Anglican post - Winnipeg Fre...":
I met a man at the 2011 Emmaus conference who is the pastor of an LCMS church and an ELCA church. There are levels of cooperation amoung apostates everywhere.
