Unposed Emmaus Photo Revealed

"You get 50 to 60 million bucks a year for selling Thrivent insurance?"
Matt Harrison, "Yes, we do. Peddling insurance is good for our synod!"
"Then how much is ELCA making on the deal?"
"$100 million, easily."
Pope John the Malefactor, "All we get are free napkins."
SP Schroeder, "You need to join the Salvation Army, John. Hahahaha."
Matt Harrison, "Or join Habitat for Humanity. Build some houses. Har."

Our Top Secret Contact - 29A - Offers This Assessment

I like the picture of the synod of the planet of the apes.

The NIV, the Kuske catechism, and finally CW has sent WELS into the apostate crowd. Whether they believe that or not.

29a

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GJ - They sold CW as attracting the younger crowd. But the same Shrinkers were busy dumping their new hymnal, the organ, the liturgy, the creeds, and original sermons. The way to succeed, they imagined, was to ape and to plagiarize their heroes - Leonard Sweet, Craig Groeschel, Andy Stanley, and worse.

Another New Dogma from the Syn Conference: The Immaculate Reception

These handy kits are available at Babtist supply stores everywhere. WELS even offered them briefly in a supplemental catalogue.

"It should perhaps be mentioned also that some of our Lutheran teachers limited the real presence to the moment of eating and drinking.  This, too, goes beyond the specific words of Christ."   

Review of Bjarne Wollan Teigen, TheLord's Supper in the Theology of Martin Chemnitz, W. Gawrisch, Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Spring, 1987, 84, p. 155.

Those who support UOJ have also crawled into bed with Receptionism, whether they admit it or not. If the hand of the communicant--instead of the powerful and efficacious Word--can effect the miraculous change in the earthly elements of Holy Communion, then God can declare the entire world forgiven without the Word, without the Means of Grace.

At least Sig Becker, Mequon, was a consistent Enthusiast. He divorced the Holy Spirit from the Word in UOJ and in Receptionism.

I heard various Syn Conference leaders saying, "We do not know the exact moment of consecration." I had to agree with them. They did not know the moment of consecration and never would, because they did not comprehend the most basic doctrine of the Scriptures, the efficacy of the Word. They looked at the plain words of the Bible the way a cow would look at a newly painted fence, stunned and bewildered.

Someone who is only an Enthusiast about justification, but not about Holy Communion, is still an Enthusiast and doubly dangerous. He does not understand or teach justification by faith in the Sacraments. How can he? The newborn was already declared forgiven, before he was born, so Holy Baptism has nothing to do with the Old Adam or anything else. Holy Communion is merely symbolic, because the communicant is already forgiven.

One pastor on LutherQueasy said this about confession and absolution: "I told him that he was forgiven before he even came to confess." So, maybe he can keep that luscious secretary on the payroll?

Twenty Years and Counting: Stupidity from the Sausage Factory

Reuel Schulz supposedly earned two STMs at Mequon, yet he also studied under Pentecostal Pete Wagner at Fuller Seminary. After reading the recent history of Mequon, anyone can conclude - "The faculty promotes anti-Lutheran Enthusiasm while calling themselves confessional Lutherans."

Larry Olson's congregation never grew, so WELS hired him to teach Church Growth at its shrinking college. He earned a DMin from Fuller Seminary, the first of the Shrinker-Enthusiasts in WELS with a drive-by degree: Rick Krause, Paul Calvin Kelm, Steve Witte, John Parlow added to the shame.

Walther commanded, "Make a decision for Christ," so people rightfully call him the Father of the Syn Conference. The great thing about being born already forgiven is the way one can ignore adultery, kidnap a few kids for their own good, evade arrest warrants, and usurp the adulterer. Walther dishonestly organized a mob against Stephan and robbed him, rather than moving forward in a Christian, brotherly way. As his disciples will say today, "Matthew 18 is for suckers and losers - mobs are more fun and far more effective."

No wonder they worship the grounds Sig Becker once occupied as the Zwingli Professor of Enthusiasm:

1. He published against the efficacy of the Word in WELS' battle against their own brother in Mankato, B. Teigen, who proved with genuine scholarship that the Syn Conference was wrong about their Receptionism. One WELS pastor told me, with a straight face, "The elements become the Body and Blood of Christ when the communicant receives them."
   
2. He supported the excommunication of two WELS families who dared to question the precious but obviously new dogma of Universal Objective Justification.
   
3. He published this bald-faced lie, when anyone with a superficial knowledge of the Gausewitz catechism realizes the falsity of this unsupported claim. Why support the lie with quotations? Research makes one late for dinner.