From a Criminal Mind Comes Felony Stupidity - Another Beer Belch from Appleton

Dr. Gregory L. Jackson Promotes Universal Objective Justification

In his most recent blog post, Dr. Gregory L. Jackson is proclaiming the gospel of universal objective justification by quoting Luther:

"Gospel means nothing but a preaching and proclaiming of the grace and mercy of God through Jesus Christ, merited and won by his death. And, historically and etymologically speaking, it is really not that which is contained in books and is put together in letters, but rather an oral proclamation, a living word, and a voice which resounds through the entire world and is publicly proclaimed so that it may be heard everywhere." - Martin Luther, in his exposition of 1 Peter. "What Luther Says" Vol. 2 p. 562.

I was going to do a post on the UOJ Stormtroopers being in love with law-preaching. Tim Glende is too ashamed to post under his own name, just as he is too feeble to give his own sermons. Plagiarism is against the law. So is impersonation. Glende enjoys breaking both laws. Engelbrecht and Mark Schroeder are examples of men who refuse to do their jobs - just like the jellyfish at Penn State. No spine - but just as toxic.

The lawless legalists get their way because the laity support them and elect them.

The UOJ Stormtroopers are lawless, but they love the law, their own man-made law. That attracts them to law-salesmen like Groeschel, Warren, Driscoll, and Andy Stanley. Glende and Ski have worshiped with at least three of the four. Bishop Katie's bragging tweets used to keep us all amused and informed.

Ski and Glende used to tweet for the masses, but no one told them that Twitter was a publishing service, not a private email account. Felony stupidity? I said that before.

Glende has no more grasp of Luther's doctrine than he does of pastoral work. Steve Spencer's post was apparently aimed at imposters like Glende. I assume, because no one informed me, that Spencer was writing about Jeff Gunn's congregation. He quoted a large portion of Luther's sermon to emphasize the preaching of the Gospel of forgiveness.

Gunn is another plagiarist. Long ago I matched up his "confession of faith" with that of another denomination. The words are copied by so many Church Growth wannabees that it is difficult to determine who the original author is. However, does any Lutheran pastor want to confess exactly the same words as the Pietistic Evangelical Coventant people - or the Babtists?

Glende illustrates how ignorant and boorish ministers seize on a few words of Luther and bray, "This proves what I have been saying."

Glende's deceitfulness - previously noted by his own member - is also revealed in his words.

Clearly the synod officials all approve of this behavior. We all know how quickly they react against justification by faith, the Means of Grace, and marital fidelity. They love to adulterate the Word so they also love and embrace adulterous pastors. Poor Tim got a bad start at St. Paul in German Village, where a known adulterer was encouraged to pretend he was a pastor.

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AC V has left a new comment on your post "From a Criminal Mind Comes Felony Stupidity - Anot...":

This is exactly what the UOJ-ers are expert at: pulling words out of context to make someone say something other than what was intended. The quote intends to emphasize the sacramental nature of the Word. God does not bring his Gospel (see footnote for official definition of that word in the Formula of Concord) in any other way than through the means of grace. Luther was BIG on the oral, preached word, so much so that he once said that the Virgin Mary was impregnated with the Christ through her ear when the angel Gabriel spoke the promise of the Savior's birth through her.

We need to hear this emphasis again in our day because so many think they don't need the means of grace (i.e. preaching and the sacraments) because, after all, "I was forgiven 2,000 years ago when Christ died on the cross."

Footnote: "The Gospel, however, is that doctrine which teaches what a man should believe in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins from God, since man has failed to keep the law of God and has transgressed it, his corrupted nature, thoughts, words, and deeds war against the law, and he is therefore subject to the wrath of God, to death, to temporal miseries, and to the punishment of hell-fire. The content of the Gospel is this, that the Son of God, Christ our Lord, himself assumed and bore the curse of the law and expiated and paid for all our sins, that through him alone we reenter the good graces of God, obtain forgiveness of sins through faith, are freed from death and all the punishments of sin, and are saved eternally." Solid Declaration V:20.

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AC V has left a new comment on your post "From a Criminal Mind Comes Felony Stupidity - Anot...":

Re: "so much so that he once said that the Virgin Mary was impregnated with the Christ through her ear when the angel Gabriel spoke the promise of the Savior's birth through her."

That was inexact. Let me clarify that statement. From what I can determine the "conceptio per aurem" was in the early church a common way of understanding how the Virgin Birth came about. Luther said it this way: "Where does it (the virgin birth) come from? The angel Gabriel brings the word: `Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, etc.' With these words Christ comes not only into her heart, but also into her womb, as she hears, grasps, and believes it. No one can say otherwise, than that the power comes through the Word" (Luther's Works 36:341).

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GJ - The early church was consistent with Biblical teaching. God works only through the Holy Spirit in the Word. So how can all the Hottentots and Hindus be pronounced forgiven and even saved without the Word? The UOJ leaders never tire of saying that much and more.