Daryl Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Graphic Explains the the Wisdom of UOJ":
One of my favorite TV shows as a kid was "CHiPs", about Jon and Ponch, a pair of California Highway Patrolmen cruising the freeways of SoCal on their KZ1000 police cruisers, helping out stranded motorists and catching the bad guys. Despite the disco-themed music, the opening credit sequence is still one of the coolest I've seen, with the tight shots of the hand on the throttle, the foot on the shift lever, the badge, the holstered gun, and the C, H, and P coming off the emblem on the gas tank to spell out the show's title.
Along these lines, the WELS has produced a new video series called "DiPs", about a pair of district presidents running around the synod, putting out all the doctrinal fires and burning all the JBFA heretics at the stake. It'll help to fill that awkward ten minutes of dead time on those Sundays when the "WELS Connection" isn't shown.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Exegetes Unite - Abraham Is the Common Theme in Ju...":
Ichabod -
In reference to one of your multiple pics - the one where Luther comments on Galatians 2:15-16 towards the beginning of this posting:
I recall not too long ago sitting in a Christmas Eve children's service (in my own WELS church) and listening to the WELS pastor's address. In essence, it was thematic of universal objective justification. He only talked how Christ was God's gift "to us." His only “message card” was Christ and the forgiveness He came to offer. The pastor apparently left all the other Scripture “cards” in his closed Bible.
I find that this type of irresponsible preaching is missing wonderful opportunities. Mixed Christian and non-Christian crowds such as a children's service which brings non-church heathen family members into the church sanctuary, are the same occasions which present their presence at funerals. Not preaching the whole counsel of God with sin and all its offensive severity and damning consequences to these mixed audiences, is not preaching the [whole] Gospel at all! If Christ saves to the uttermost [and, He does]; He saves from hell and damnation. Hence, Lutheran parish preachers should never shun the preaching to sinners: "Repent of your sins and believe the Gospel"
But, sadly and pathetically, so - Christian preachers will refuse to do that. Why? Because they have cast the Holy Spirit aside and think that they know better. Hence, they attempt to provide for the sinners in their congregation mix, a cheap Gospel. That cheap Gospel is readily found in universal objective justification, such as the "Christian" denomination of the WELS. Such a cheap gospel is the lazy preachers' "Gospel."
"Cheap Grace is a Worthless Substitute for a Faith That Saves:"
http://www.thechristianmessage.org/2012/06/cheap-grace-is-worthless-substitute-for.html
Nathan M. Bickel - pastor emeritus
Bay city, Michigan - WELS Bethel Lutheran member
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
