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| The Coburg kept Luther safe during the Augsburg Diet. |
Today marks the anniversary of the Augburg Confession. My wife and I graduated from Augustana College, given the Latin name of the Augsburg Confession. The Swedish Lutherans who came to America were Pietists who quickly learned that the Confessions were a better guide than their cell groups. Influenced by Passavant and one of their own (trained at the Columbus seminary), they became more orthodox and confessional over time. The Augustana Synod honored the Lutherans Confessions in its church name, its primary college, and its seminary. They had 400,000 members when they merged with the LCA in 1962.
Many SynConference pastors will have their rah-ray day of celebration, marking another anniversary of this confession of faith. They will continue to wage war against justification by faith, even though their highly esteemed justification without faith is nowhere to be found in the Scriptures, Luther, or the Book of Concord.
Their UOJ is found in Samuel Huber and Halle University's Pietism. Gone are the days when a church leader had to be learned, a study of Christian doctrine and an expositor of the Scriptures. Now they are little more than insurance salesmen for Thrivent, lackeys of the Fuller Seminary crowd, and servants of their Father Below.
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| Luther described a Synod of Crows while he was cooped up in the Coburg. Did he foresee the SynConference Pietists proclaiming their imagined orthodoxy in their Pietistic Geneva gowns? |
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| Does anyone sing this and mean it today? |
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| Chemnitz rescued Selnecker from doctrinal compromise, so there is hope for SynConference - not much - but some. |
