Reading about John Huss, the Czech Reformer, led me to this video about William Tyndale, the first man to translate the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek. He studied under Luther and Melanchthon so he would be better at translating the Scriptures.
The King of England, Henry VIII, had Tyndale executed for translating and printing the Scriptures. The next king, James I, approved a unified English Bible, which became known as the King James Version. Tyndale's prayer was answered.
The clergy and laity today fear man rather than God. They respect the complicated and contradictory lies of their leaders, but disrespect the Word of God. The laity and clergy have long, Latinate words to use for their excuses, like "adiaphora," but do not comprehend what those words once meant when spoken by sincere believers.
During a confessional crisis, there are no adiaphora, no matters of indifference. If a false leader embraces terminology or actions that are not wrong by themselves, orthodox Christians cannot imitate them without confusing truth with error in the eyes of others.
Therefore, this is no time to embrace Roman Catholic decisions about the liturgical calendar, colors, and readings when His Holiness, the Antichrist, is doing his best to march the Lutherans into his fatal embrace.
One can certainly wear those torn, faded, and unnaturally wrinkled jeans while leading worship* - but not now. Groeschel-Stanley jeans are a Groeschel-Stanley confession of faith. Those liturgical garments are leading Lutherans into generic, anti-Confessional, emergent New Age thought.
"One day soon, There'll be a plastic moon
Shining through the plastic trees,
Plastic ladies with plastic babies,
Bouncing on their plastic knees."
Shel Silverstein.
But now the future promises life-coaches who think a sermon is a life-coach pep talk. There will be life-coaches who spend money on life-coaches, so they can life-coach their blinded and confused audiences into successful and prosperous lives of coaching others. Before they were making disciples who make disciples who make disciples, as one former Mequon professor, Gerlach (Fuller alumnus) wrote shamelessly.
*Traditional Christian worship shifts the focus from man to God. The emergent wolves shift the focus to themselves. That someone would walk into sacred space in a clownish outfit, fit for working on a car's transmission, is testimony to that shift.
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| Craig Groeschel writes sermons for Lutheran pastors, which they copy verbatim. The lupine DPs approve, while devouring anyone who objects. |
