Huebner's Double-Talk Comes Through in His Fuller Energized Article

The Shrinkers consistently promote their own losers to positions of power, so they can leverage the damage.

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"My Word will not return to me empty" - unless you mortals make it less effective by not employing Enthusiastic 'church growth' ideologies.

"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word" - but only if your mortals don't hinder it with lackluster methodologies!

The doublespeak employed by saying "we cannot make God's Word more effective" but then demonstrating how we can make it ineffective would be humorous if this weren't a serious article written by such a high-ranking member of the Synod.

*** - GJ

Three-fold Promise Destroys CG and UOJ

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:

1. It shall not return unto me void,
   
2. But it shall accomplish that which I please,
   
3. And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
   

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. KJV Isaiah 55:8-11

In Russia, We Do Not Pass Plate, We Drive Tank

"You should see us raise funds for Thoughts of Faith."

WELS First VP Advises the Confused about His Passion for Fuller Tricks

This balderdash was given to participants at the St. Paul, German Village, Church Growth seminar, led by Webber-Kovaciny-Shep pal Floyd Luther Stolzenburg. Number 17 has become the NNIV dragon, but #8 is the funniest of them all. No wonder WELS is not growing - they are copying Groeschel verbatim! Didn't little Timmy Glende read his hand-outs?

Drink in the Fuller Seminary wisdom without the expense of going there. No like? You have another spirit. The Left Foot of Fellowship will soon be extended in Christian love.

When All Else Fails, WELS Advises - Try Methodism: Stolzenburg Seminar in Columbus, Ohio

Gorge yourself on the wisdom of mainline Methodist evangelism tricks.

This was foreplay for the Groeschel ravishment that followed.

Stolzenburg Evangelism Seminar in Columbus, Ohio

Joe Krohn Finds WELS Using the Bait and Switch: Pretending To Be Lutheran, But Not

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Golden Arches

Excommunication, or breaking fellowship if you prefer is carried out by the church on someone who is unrepentant for breaking God's Law; the Ten Commandments.  When we were cut off from all membership privileges (excommunication) by the leadership at Holy Word, it was for 'denying the doctrine of Objective Justification.'  This was erroneous since the discussions were always in the context of how the doctrine was being preached and our objection to the preaching.  Since this doctrine comes from a peculiar interpretation of scripture by men, it is not a part of the Law.  Since excommunication needs a broken law, I feel the Eighth Commandment coming into play here and that would be a travesty; that  fellowship would be broken over a man made doctrine and carried out through one of the Ten Commandments.

I was never in want of leadership at Holy Word as it was suggested, but was merely pointing the way to what a Confessional Lutheran Church practices.  You have to realize that when you say you are a Lutheran Church and swear an oath to uphold the teachings of Scripture as confessed in the Book of Concord, you bear a responsibility to that oath and not just lip service.  If I walk into McDonald's on any given day, I expect to see a Big Mac, McMuffins and Quarterpounders with Cheese on the menu.  When I walk into a Lutheran Church on any given Sunday, I expect to see a solid liturgy with Confession and Absolution, Sacraments, Word taught in truth and purity (just the facts, ma'am); music with strong lyrical content and the emphasis on Christ and what He has done and continues to do in our stead.

Fanatics Destroy Romans 3: The NNIV Replaces the Truth with Falsehood

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The way that certain fanatics destroy the text of Romans 3 utterly boggles my mind. It is more than clear from an honest, plain reading of the text that St. Paul's point in this passage is to demonstrate that "there is no difference" between Jews and Gentiles, "for all have sinned." Paul's point is that Christ's Word, work, and justification are not only for Jews, but also for Gentiles. This is why Romans 3 ends with the thought that: "Is God . . . not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the *CIRCUMCISED BY FAITH AND THE UNCIRCUMCISED THROUGH THAT SAME FAITH*" (emphasis added). This is the context that the Holy Spirit through St. Paul is driving at. He is not creating some pseudo-universalistic justification; rather, he is demonstrating the limitless nature of the Atonement and the ability that ALL men have to receive the benefits of justification through faith.

Historic St. John Lutheran, Milwaukee: Great Organ Recital, Appreciative Audience

The organ recital was well received by the audience. One family drove four hours to hear the concert and see the building.