narrow-minded has left a new comment on your post "Luther's Sermons on Trinity 15 - God and Mammon":
Most of the SynCon clergy should heed this, instead of the mammon of their cushy Concordia Plans and growth numbers:
1. This Gospel is a part of the long sermon Christ delivered to his disciples on the mount, in which among other things He especially warned and admonished His disciples against the infamous vice of avarice and anxiety for daily bread, the legitimate fruit and proof of our unbelief. This does great harm in Christendom when it takes possession of those in the office of the ministry, who should be occupied by nothing except teaching the Word of God and faith aright, and chastising the error and sin of the world; or when it possesses these it should confess God’s Words before all persons and be prepared to serve everybody for the sake of God, even if they be obliged on that account to lose their riches, honor, body and life.
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GJ - Many clergy are barely able to make ends meet. Like Lazarus, they see the synodical officials and CG pets feasting sumptuously every day on the "mission offerings."
When the ALC and LCA were merging, the memorials about the pension fund were the most numerous. Why bother with doctrine, since the whole idea was to protect the clergy's future comfort. But those plans are the golden chains and duct tape to silence the clergy.
WELS and Missouri pretend to be better, but they are worse.
