This Is How Harrison, Schroeder, and Pope John Look Down on ELCA - While Working with ELCA. Epic Fail for Matt Harrison and Mark Schroeder

Mark Jeske is now the media man for WELS and the LCMS,
and he gladly does joint-ministry with ELCA.
What does that say about the leadership of Matt Harrison and Mark Schroeder?
Will Pope John the Malefactor extend the left foot of fellowship to Mark Jeske?

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Feb. 23rd 2012
Change or Die III
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Disappearing Web Evidence. Silencing Martin Luther

"Error 404 - Page Not Found" is a common response, when I go back to an old link preserved on this blog. I decided the message needed an icon, so I created this one, especially appropriate since the UOJ hive regularly goes Medieval on me.

I learned early to copy and paste content along with the link. The actual URL may go away, but the evidence remains. People also back up the blog from time to time, since nothing lasts forever on the Net - except the pictures people wish would go away.

If you want to know about apostasy, look around at the synods. ELCA is beyond hope and dwells on one topic only, even though the leaders have already won that battle.

The Olde Synodical Conference tolerates all doctrines and opinions - including ELCA's - but not the Biblical core, justification by faith alone. The leaders loathe Luther and know almost nothing about him. They are managers who realize their income depends on an insurance business. Decades ago, the liberal Lutheran Forum journal wondered aloud about how AAL/LB controlled the synods with their grants. They received one and dropped the topic. I offered to write an article on the subject, but no one responded.

Roland Bainton was famous for his drawings. Some students got one.
Ours has Martin Luther holding our first two children.

Today I was reading Ludwig Fuerbringer on Luther. He constantly read Luther and knew the content of Luther's Works better than anyone today. He even took his family counseling advice from Luther. Does anyone do that today? Fuerbringer also focused on German, Greek, and Hebrew studies.

"Planned Giving Counselors" Are Licensed Insurance Salesmen

"GIFT ANNUITIES ARE LIKE POTATO CHIPS ..."

Usually when Christian giving counselors work with donors, a lot of their time is spent letting people know how their money can work for themselves—and for the Lord.

This time, however, counselor Gerry Heckmann was working with a pro. “In Daniel’s* work-a-day world, he had been working for secular non-profit agencies, helping donors set up charitable gift annuities,” says Heckmann.

When it came for Daniel and Sarah to retire, they knew they wanted their money to also work in WELS’ ministry and started a CGA. As he set up the paperwork, Daniel was already thinking ahead to the possibility of doing another and said, “Charitable gift annuities are like potato chips, you can’t have just one.

Here’s how it works. Daniel and Sarah made an irrevocable cash gift to the WELS Foundation. In exchange, they receive a fixed amount of income each year for the rest of their lives. When the annuity ends, the remainder of the gift will move to their designated ministry.

Even as this couple provides for themselves in retirement, Daniel and Sarah also experience the joy that comes from financially supporting the spread of the gospel. That’s even better than potato chips!

* Names have been changed to protect donor confidentiality.

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GJ - How many members will show up for a Thrivent Insurance Sales Presentation?

None.

But no one says that. They are invited to "Estate Planning Seminars." They hear from "Planned Giving Counselors." WELS lists them as divine calls.

Get that - God calls insurance salesmen into Word and Sacrament ministry.

Notice the example above from the WEL$ Foundation. The couple is buying an annuity. The only way someone can sell them an annuity is to have an insurance license in that state. For a variable annuity (geared to match stock funds) he needs another qualification.

The rules also allow that he work on a commission. As soon as the money is received for the annuity, he gets a percentage of the total.

Once the papers are signed, the gift is irrevocable. They may be giving it to the "church" and think it is their congregation. It may be the synod instead. Try getting the money back once the papers are signed. Not likely.

I checked with a reliable source. He said, "It is commonly understood that all giving counselors will obtain an insurance license. That is probably why they leave the job and become financial consultants. They already have a free list of fat-cat donors."

They are working for their own gain, and Thrivent gives them "grants" to travel around for presentations.

Would anyone call this unethical, greedy, and dishonest? What if the person manipulates a dying woman into buying an annuity?

Annuities are marketed for those expecting to live a long time. My mother got a small one and got a big return on it, because she was old but very healthy. It was a good way to protect part of her money. Some of it was left when she died and the remainder went to her heirs.

An annuity is not a good buy for a dying person, but it is great for the salesman. There is no health requirement, only a contract and the money. He would make at least 3% of the total, perhaps more. The money is paid to him immediately rather than slowly.

There are many forms of estate planning, many options. Annuities are sold by hundreds of companies. Why trust only one avenue, one company?

Fifth Annual Emmaus Conference

Fifth Annual Emmaus Conference:


The Fifth Annual Emmaus Conference on “The History and Prospects of Lutheran Free Conferences” was held at Parkland Lutheran Church and School in Tacoma, WA, on 9 – 10 February 2012. While this is the fifth annual free conference, it is the second time the presidents from The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and The Evangelical Lutheran Synod met together “to share information on a selected topic of interest to confessional Lutheranism in a setting outside the realm of church fellowship…. The conference is not to be viewed as having any official status of formal doctrinal discussions between church bodies.” The organizers of the Emmaus Conference did express the desire that this conference in Tacoma might lead to “the establishment of such official free conferences among confessional Lutheran church bodies in America.”

In 1856, Dr. C.F.W. Walther, President of the Missouri Synod, first proposed the idea of free conferences to “bring together American Lutherans who unreservedly confessed the Augsburg Confession.” The proposal of free conferences was Walther’s “first major ecumenical effort.” President Harrison noted, “The now famous free conferences were proposed by Walther in Lehre und Wehre in 1856, and actually held during: October 1856 at Columbus; October 1857 at Pittsburgh; August 1858 at Cleveland; and July 1859 at Fort Wayne.” Unfortunately, Walther was unable to attend the fourth free conference. A large section of President Harrison’s paper addressed the historical trifecta that threatened Lutheranism: Reformed Theology, Pietism, and Rationalism. This “three-fold battering ram,” manifested as Samuel Simon Schmucker’s Definite Synodical Platform – An American Recension of the Augsburg Confession of 1855,  threatened Lutheranism in America and was the impetus for the free conferences based upon the Augsburg Confession.


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Weaning People from the Synodical Experts

"Night of the Lepus" failed as a horror film because
large bunnies are not that frightening.
UOJ fanatics are just as terrifying.

The closer we are to the Word itself, the more we understand.

I always look beyond the argumentation to the sources. Anyone can tell the authorities used from the argumentation. UOJ circles around the infallible writing of Walther, Pieper, JP Meyer, and Jack Kilcrease. Walther picked Pieper to carry on his false doctrine. JP Meyer was trained in it. Kilcrease needs a full-time job.

The UOJ Enthusiasts do not quote Luther except to look for one sentence that will supposedly prove their case, as if 99.9% of his writing is justification by faith, and the rest (the crucial passages!) are UOJ.

On LaughQuest they tried to prove UOJ from the Book of Concord. I remember one knock-out quotation on their side. I looked it up. The next sentence says that forgiveness comes only through faith. When I pointed that out, my response was buried under comments from the Stormtroopers.

Tom Hardt's essay had great material about Samuel Huber, the forerunner to WELS UOJ. The Stormtroopers answer that by avoiding the historical material and arguing Hardt as their authority, since he was in the bag for UOJ. Like the Little Sect apologists, Hardt dithers and plays with one version of UOJ versus another, as if it is better to die from arsenic than cyanide.

And then we have the living authorities. They have the Deposit of Faith (a Roman doctrine) that preserves the truth of UOJ from generation to generation. They agree with each other, so they must be correct. They remember that Robert Preus always taught UOJ, even though his final book contradicts their stories.

Best of all, Holy Mama Synod agrees with them. They actually have votes for it. That reminds me of this description of the Council of Ephesus, given during a travelogue, "The Council of Ephesus was where they voted that Mary was a virgin."

WELS advocates for the New NIV rely on Dr. Moo,
their Babtist expert from Wheaton College,
an obvious shill for Murdoch's mytho-porno NNIV.
They will say UOJ is Biblical because the apostate Leftist NNIV added an "all" so
"all" are now justified. Ta da!

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"This is basically why they contend so strongly for 'objective' justification and go a step further than our Lutheran Confessions insisting that Objective Justification is the Chief article of Christian Faith, while our Confessions give that honor to justification by grace through faith"
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/MuellerSymbols.pdf 

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Sometimes church growth ideas backfire, like naming a church after the town or geographical location. For example, this pro-evolution church is named: Crooked Creek Baptist Church of Indianapolis. Now is it the Creek that is crooked, or the church?

Evolution Weekend in Churches—An Atheist’s Fizzle:
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2012/02/10/evolution-weekend-in-churches-an-atheists-fizzle/