Ichabod –
Regarding
your recent offensive posting:
Hebrews 11
Graphics - Sunday, August 12, 2012
Why
do you exhibit all these pictures and include Scriptures (with them) about
faith? Haven't you graduated beyond the Scriptures of our Heavenly Father's
divine revelation? Shame on you for even displaying these anti-Christian / anti
Lutheran propaganda pics and the Bible verses that speak of faith! Why can't
you pick up on the new wave of Christianity? Why can't you begin to proclaim
some universal objective justification? Why can't you do that and make it more
comfortable for your massive viewing audience?
Please allow
me to illustrate what you should be doing:
According
to the July 2012 Edition of Bethel Ev. Lutheran Church, Bay County WELS
"Bulletin," there appeared on the front page, the featured article, "The Sabbath Gift."
Nowhere
in this full page article, [perhaps, likely, a canned synodical one] was I
forced to read about faith! That uncouth and uncomfortable word, “faith” was never
once, mentioned! It was a very comfortable article to read about the Third
Commandment. Especially, was it cozy and comfortable to read toward the end, as
it made clear to me that all I had to do is sit back and stand in amazement
over all that Christ has done for me, without all that nasty faith business to
complicate things!
You
see, Ichabod - there is no need for you to clutter cyberspace with all those
quoted Scriptures about outmoded faith and all those offensive outdated Book of
Concord quotations, and sayings of Neanderthal Luther, and Chemnitz!
Here's the end
portion of that model "Sabbath" article:
>>>>>>>
........Jesus has secured forgiveness for your sins, including the one where
you ignored God's wisdom of work and rest. Always living up to the demands of
his Father and the law, Jesus has carried all of your weariness to the cross.
There he paid your death sentence. He now lives. Jesus is the gift of
forgiveness and eternal life...for rest. Jesus is the gift for your sanity and
wholeness. Jesus is the gift to enrich your lives. Jesus is the gift to make
your joy complete. Jesus restores your bent and withered parts. Jesus is
Sabbath (rest).
Take a breath
and relax. Jesus is your Sabbath gift......
<<<<<<<<<<
Ichabod - Please get
this faith thing out of your head. Go through your old hymn books and tear out
those sections entitled:
"trust," "consecration," "new obedience,"
- and, especially that awful, "faith and justification" section! Make
sure that you destroy that very offensive hymn - "My Faith Looks Up to Thee!" And, most of all get rid of that one entitled,
“Salvation Unto Us Has Come!”
Well
- there you have it Ichabod! So, then, why do you still insist on all this
faith in Christ business? Can't you see and understand that all a human soul
needs is to understand that Jesus has brought universal objective justification
to everyone? Can't you get it through your thick head that faith is outmoded
and that there isn't any need to put faith in Christ, especially since He does
everything for everyone?
Finally, shame on you
umpteen times for all your Luther justification by faith alone, material! Can't
you finally get with it and be in vogue with the current culture? Shame, shame
on you!
Nathan
M. Bickel – pastor emeritus
Bay
City, Michigan
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
