Febreze has left a new comment on your post "St. Patrick's Breastplate - The Hymn or Prayer Att...":
I hate to judge one's actions but I think my following comment is a reflection of some MLC student's actions:
St. Patrick's Day. I doubt many MLC students even know what this day entails. Yet this weekend they are most likely out getting drunk and partying like pagans. Is this supposed to be a reflection of those "serious about ministry?" Should those students studying for the Biblical ministry, which they adhere to, be thrown into the same basket as pagans? It is happening with every COS/DEX. There is more secularization happening. Do they not take Scripture seriously when it states to "not be unequally yoked with unbelievers?" Do they not take Scripture seriously when it says to not be cast into drunkenness? Yet this happens with every COS/DEX. This even happens on weekends when these events aren't hosted by the pastoral or educational Ministry.
I find it most disturbing when COS/DEX at MLC hosts these drunken parties in the same context of pagan ritual drunkenness. If anything they should be in chapel thanking the Father, through Christ, for St. Patrick. This is all but forgotten in today's society. And if it's forgotten in today's society than we can be certain it's forgotten in WELS' society. Where has the 3rd use of the Law gone? Where has brother correcting brother gone? These sons and daughters of Christ are running rampant in MLC campus. Those who are studying for the Ministry are running rampant with drunkenness and sin. It's more than original sin...it's willful sin on a repeated occasion. But they will be promoted and defended because they show a fake "zeal" for the Gospel -- whether or not their willful sins show otherwise.
MLC students: rethink the Ministry. Are you serious? Read Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions. Are you serious? Repent and receive the remission of sins. Go forth and continue study in this renewed Light. But don't, by all means, continue this study with willful sins.
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GJ - There is a strange concept of hedonism being proof that one is not a Pietist. Although no sect is more Pietistic than WELS, this term is always tossed around.
Alcohol addiction is slow to develop. It can take 20 years to become a physical addiction. WELS clergy DUI accidents are not rare, not even among the faculty. What an example - an alcoholic serves liquor at the WELS worship conference - real cute until some innocent people are turned into tiger meat.
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| A WELS member created this graphic, to go with this video, still published on Facebook. What would Hochmuth say? |
Febreze has left a new comment on your post "St. Patrick's Day at Martin Luther College of Booz...":
Lol, in regards to the VP graphic. He (Schone) is a joke. Wandering around in his Hawaiian shirt and promoting Beckerism ad nauseam. Things will not change at that school as long as the faculty stands in line with the philosophy of education (UOJ or excommunication (hell), women in the Ministry, no adherence to the Book of Concord, etc.) Once they actually came around with a somewhat decent chapel they ruin it with their Mars Hill philosophy -- adding a $40,000 projector screen (with one more coming once they get the money I hear).
When I attended that school (within the past year) I heard from students that they "didn't give **** about the Book of Concord." (yes, that's an actual quote ya'll) "I don't care about that...just Scripture." My inside response is, "Okay, go to your nearest non-denominational church then." This is what is being taught there folks. These people come out of there with no idea about what the Lutheran confessions are. The most they come out of there with is a vague Biblical overview. With this overview they have an interpretation of Scripture that imitates the sects in order to bring in more money, I mean, I'm sorry -- more people. It's not going to change unless the faculty is thrown out and a confessional one is brought in. And if there are confessionals there...then why aren't they standing up? The silence means acceptance. God knows what's happening on the seminary level. Oh wait, Ichabod has cited that extensively...
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "St. Patrick's Day at Martin Luther College of Booz...":
WELS identify People as Giving Units.
