David R. Barnhart: VOTING RESULTS NOVEMBER 20, 2011

David R. Barnhart: VOTING RESULTS NOVEMBER 20, 2011:

1. Bethel Lutheran Church, Noblesville, IN passed second vote to leave the ELCA by a margin of 82%.

This congregation with 1353 baptized members plans to join NALC.

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New Vrindaban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Palace of Gold was built in West Virginia.

New Vrindaban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

A Fundy minister's son became a Hindu and engaged in the abuse of boys, built a golden temple in West Virginia.

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NY Times on the swami child abuser.

UOJ Is All Law - Not Grace: WELS Time of Grace Is a Ministry of the Law. Mark Jeske as the New Moses

The Shrinkers work only through deception, so they are furious when anyone removes their cloaking devices. Appropriately, while calling themselves "doctor," they only have demon degrees (DMin), invented to coax lazy ministers back to school.

They claim to have a passion for sharing Jesus, but they really have an obsession with Moses. As Luther said, "They turn Moses into the Savior."

The First Shrinker Commandment - Everyone is already forgiven. They want to make that sound so full of grace, but it is only an excuse to pound people with their man-made law.

The Second Shrinker Commandment - Everyone must be in a cell group and must study what is assigned. Cell groups came from Romanism and the Reformed, copied by Spener. The cell group is just as important as the sacraments. In fact, they supplant the sacraments and the congregation. They are the True Church, according to Pietists.

The Third Shrinker Commandment - Love requires unionism. Following Spener, they view sound doctrine as the enemy of love, and verse vica. Shrinkers love every denomination except their own.

The Fourth Shrinker Commandment - The Fourth is like unto the Third Shrinker Commandment. Doctrinal indifference is so important that those who study and articulate sound Biblical, Book of Concord doctrine are ridiculed and vilified.

The Fifth Shrinker Commandment - Spener, as the founder of Pietism, must be honored above all others. Attempts to rehabilitate Spener among Lutherans are proof of Pietism, just similar attempts with Rauschenbusch reveal Social Gospel passions.

The Sixth Shrinker Commandment - New Age doctrine is the real foundation. Starting with plagiarist Norman Vincent Peale, they get their spiritual insights from the occult. That is why Robert Schuller and Fuller Seminary grooved with Paul Y. Cho, another occultist. Their other Sixth Commandment - they have two! - is Thou Must Commit Adultery. Yes, they set records, and not just with the opposite sex.

The Seventh Shrinker Commandment - Management By Objective will solve all church problems. There is only One Solution and Peter Drucker is its prophet.

The Eighth Shrinker Commandment - Because they teach universal forgiveness and salvation without faith, they have no regard for faith. They portray faith as heretical and damaging, then add at the end their tirades, "But you gotta have faith."

The Ninth Shrinker Commandment - Ignore Luther. The only time they mention Luther is to misquote him, blame him for harming evangelism, or rail against him being quoted against them.

The Tenth Shrinker Commandment - Hate the truth.

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Someone shared this link on the history of Pietism. I have not reviewed it.

Counting Them Up: Ichabod versus the Fallen Opposition

During Thanksgiving, LI suggested listing the blogs fallen before the Ichabod juggernaut.

Tim Glende's anonymous efforts come and go. Poor Tim has been reduced to impersonating other people, so he can post his manufactured comments and criticize them.

Joe Krohn discovered the the truths of the Book of Concord, so Kudu Don Patterson excommunicated Joe and his wife - without a hearing. DP Glaeske even refused to answer a basic question about justification. Joe's blog promotes orthodox Lutheran doctrine.

Jack Kilcrease has a blog where mainline UOJ is promoted. He also pops up at various Lutheran blogs to post foolish comments, only to erase them. Paul Calvin Kelm is famous for copying his creative comments, but Kilcrease is famous for deleting them - hence the new verbs "to kelm" and "to kilcrease."

Jack Cascione's SpenerQuest ventures onto the battlefield every so often, only to retreat in disgrace and confusion. To quote Gibbon, they fight without discipline and run without shame.

Pope Paul the Unlearned, aka Paul McCain, has set a record for offending people all over the Net. My chest swells a bit at the thought of his incoherent rages. He pauses from his sinuflection toward Rome occasionally to issue another tirade on his low-caliber blog. Pope Paul shows up on SpenerQuest because he was banned on the American Lutheran Publicity Forum, where he had thousands of posts.

VirtueOnline - News - Exclusives - SAVANNAH: GA: State Supreme Court Rules in favor of TEC in Christ Church Dispute

Popes come in all denominations,
all genders.

The litigation has been ongoing since 2007 when 87% of Christ Church (CC) members in good standing voted to uphold the unanimous decision of its board to disaffiliate from The Episcopal Church (TEC) because of its revisionist theological trends over the last several decades.

In an effort to seize the property, TEC subsequently sued Christ Church, its rector and individual board members. TEC's 1979 passage of the Dennis Canon claims a unilateral trust over all property of Episcopal churches nationwide without regard to title or state property laws. Christ Church has owned the Johnson Square property since the 1700s, first by land grant from the English Royal Council, and, after the Revolutionary War, by a charter of incorporation from the 1789 Georgia state legislature.

"Christ Church has always maintained clear title to the property and has never agreed to hold its property in trust for any entity. We are reviewing the ruling and will meet to determine our next course of action which could include an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if warranted," stated Jim Gardner, CC legal counsel. "At its core this case is about fundamental property rights of individual congregations in hierarchical churches," he continued.

In his dissenting opinion, Judge S. Phillip Brown described the majority decision with these words: "Today's majority opinion effectively eviscerates many of Georgia's property laws, trust laws, and equity laws..."



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