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SMP Program is “Mega-Death” for Lutheran Congregations

January 25th, 2012Post by Martin Noland

Because of comments and additional information received by email, the post has been completely revised.   I did the best research I could on the basis of published sources, but it looks like the published sources are not what is actually happening. 

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GJ - C. F. W. Walther's training consisted of a four-year degree at Leipzig (rationalistic). Yet he is the greatest theologian who ever lived, with all his opinions trumping Luther and the Book of Concord.

The answer seems to be a much shorter and more focused training period, perhaps a five-year degree, plus the elimination of the costly vicarage year, which was invented and imposed on students.

Another odd, modern concept is the wife financing her husband's schooling when the LCMS has abandoned its own seminaries. Mission funds are for the pay and perks of the synod staff, who live and work like princes.

Coming soon is a collapse of the traditional seminary system in the synods. ELCA's beehives are obviously in crisis: Berkeley, Chicago, Southern, Wartburg (the obvious ones). The two LCMS seminaries are bloated brick-piles serving the interests of the faculties.

Here is the cussing minister, Driscoll,
with the senior editor of the ESV, J. I. Packer, a Calvinist.
But Issues, Etc chuckles that "justification by faith" is Calvinist.