An ELCA Bishop with a Drive-by Fuller DMin?How Long Can They Survive?

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "James Hazelwood elected bishop of ELCA New England...":

Ichabod -

Sometimes I wonder how long it will take ELCA to implode. - 26 schools and hierarchy headquarters, plus regional bureaucracies? Is their membership pumping that much into this corrupt system? Or, are rabid feminists and homosexual activists' monies keeping ELCA vibrant and thriving to aid in the infection destruction of America's spiritual and patriotic future?

At any rate, ELCA is a shining example of what Scripture highlights: ".....having a form of godliness, but denying the power, thereof......" - 2 Timothy 3:5

Nathan M. Bickel - pastor emeritus

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org

James Hazelwood elected bishop of ELCA New England Synod:Qualified To Teach at WELS MLC

James Hazelwood, DMin, Fuller Seminary

James Hazelwood elected bishop of ELCA New England Synod - News Releases - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:

"He earned a doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. California Lutheran is one of the ELCA's 26 colleges and universities; Pacific Lutheran is one of eight ELCA seminaries."

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GJ - His doctorate is just like Larry Olson's DMin from Fuller Seminary:


James Hazelwood 


Author Biography

James Hazelwood is Pastor of St. Andrew Church, Charlestown, Rhode Island, a congregation that has experienced renewal and vitality in the rocky soil of New England. He received his D.Min. degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, and attended Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary & Union Seminary in New York City. He is also a photographer of people and lanscapes (sic). He is married to Lisa Stoen Hazelwood, who serves as Associate Pastor at the church. They have one son, Benjamin.

• Books:
• Experience Church (Creating Dynamic Christian Community)

Brett Meyer - On Wayne Mueller's UOJ . Apology (Defense) of the Augsburg Confession

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Creeds and the Anti-Confessionals - Missouri and t...":

Wayne Mueller's UOJ was used by the CELC in a blasphemous essay on Universal Justification.

A common mantra of the UOJ decision theology apostates in the Lutheran Synods is a denigration of the Holy Spirit's faith. The CELC essay is a classic example of how Buchholz, Webber, Zarling, R. Preus, Pierce, Kilcrease, Krohn, Mueller, Humann etc etc etc turn the Righteousness of Christ into a withered and outstretched beggars hand:
"Faith is like the empty hand of a beggar..." p. 8
http://www.celc.info/home/180010197/180010197/docs/2008JustificationThemeOutreachMessage.pdf?sec_id=180010197

The Christian Book of Concord has this to say about the Righteousness of Christ - the Holy Spirit's faith:
BOC
Defense of the Augsburg Confession, Article IV Of Justification
67] "Faith cometh by hearing. And proof can be derived even from this that faith justifies, because, if justification occurs only through the Word, and the Word is apprehended only by faith, it follows that faith justifies."
71] "but we maintain this, that properly and truly, by faith itself, we are for Christ's sake accounted righteous, or are acceptable to God. And because "to be justified" means that out of unjust men just men are made, or born again, it means also that they are pronounced or accounted just. For Scripture speaks in both ways. [The term "to be justified" is used in two ways: to denote, being converted or regenerated; again, being accounted righteous. Accordingly we wish first to show this, that faith alone makes of an unjust, a just man, i.e., receives remission of sins".
http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_4_justification.php

The Defense of the Augsburg Confession What Is Justifying Faith?, 48] "The adversaries feign that faith is only a knowledge of the history, and therefore teach that it can coexist with mortal sin. Hence they say nothing concerning faith, by which Paul so frequently says that men are justified, because those who are accounted righteous before God do not live in mortal sin."
http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_4_justification.php

Luther, on the orthodox hand, has this to say about the Holy Spirit's faith:

"The Scriptures ascribe no righteousness to Abraham except through faith. The Scriptures speak of Abraham as he stands before God, a man justified by faith. Because of his faith God extends to him the promise: "In thee shall all nations be blessed."

Abraham was justified because he believed. Paul's argumentation runs like this: "Since this is the unmistakable testimony of Holy Writ, why do you take your stand upon circumcision and the Law? Was not Abraham, your father, of whom you make so much, justified and saved without circumcision and the Law by faith alone?" Paul therefore concludes: "They which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham."
The faith of the fathers in the Old Testament era, and our faith in the New Testament are one and the same faith in Christ Jesus, although times and conditions may differ.
http://www.bibleteacher.org/luthercom_3.htm

"As before said, they regard faith of slight importance; for they do not understand that it is our sole justifier. To accept as true the record of Christ--this they call faith. The devils have the same sort of faith, but it does not make them godly. Such belief is not Christian faith; no, it is rather deception." And here, "You see how they make faith of no value to themselves, and so must regard as heresy all doctrine based upon it. Thus they do away with the whole Gospel. These are they who deny the Christian faith and exterminate it from the world. Paul prophesied concerning them when he said (1 Tim 4, 1): "In later times some shall fall away from the faith." The voice of faith is now silenced all over the world. Indeed, faith is condemned and banished as the worst heresy, and all who teach and endorse it are condemned with it. The Pope, the bishops, charitable institutions, cloisters, high schools, unanimously opposed it for nearly four hundred years, and simply drove the world violently into hell. Their conduct is the real persecution by Antichrist, in the last times."

"You cannot extricate yourself from unbelief, nor can the Law do it for you. All your works in intended fulfilment of the Law must remain works of the Law and powerless to justify in the sight of God, who regards as just only believing children."
http://www.trinitylutheranms.org/MartinLuther/MLSermons/Galatians4_1_7.html

Steadfast Lutherans » Who would you Immortalize in Stained Glass – Lyle Schaller or Robert Preus? By Pr. Rossow

The Great Kidnapper and Mob Organizer is on the bottom.
Is that Preus? How about teaching Justification and Rome?

Steadfast Lutherans » Who would you Immortalize in Stained Glass – Lyle Schaller or Robert Preus? By Pr. Rossow:

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GJ - This pastor is one who poses with his kitty-cat and calls justification-by-faith advocates "morons" on his little blog.



Has he read Preus' last book? I doubt it.

This is more synod worship, which Walther encouraged, because it centered around him. As 29A said, the ship arrived with a bishop (Stephan) and a pope (Walther) on board. I will do a Photoshop for that  - if no one beats me to it.

Walther knew about his sex offender bishop,
but did nothing until the syphilis break-out in the groupies.

Creeds and the Anti-Confessionals - Missouri and the Little Sect Adopt the WELS Apostasy by Loving the Dogma of UOJ

The LCMS, ELS, and WELS agree about the "Chief Article of the Christian Faith."

Pushed into a corner, hard to do with jello or mercury, they admit that justification without faith is their foundational dogma.

Some people think their Rosetta Stone is Chemnitz, Hunnius, Gerhard, or Calov explaining justification by faith in light of Luther and Melanchthon's leadership in Biblical exposition.

The actual Rosetta Stone for UOJ is the statement by Wayne Mueller, below, which Brett Meyer unearthed from the Holy of Holies, the WELS Essay Files.

The statement offers the lamest possible excuse for substituting UOJ as the chief article of the faith. The confessions excuse it - nay, they demand the invention of new dogmas.

Once that layer of deception is penetrated, everything makes sense. History does not matter. The Book of Concord is boring, meaningless, and irrelevant. Biblical exposition means making up some reason why UOJ is found in every verse of the Bible, even though UOJ advocates confess (if I can say that) there is no UOJ in the Bible, no UOJ in the Book of Concord.

Jay Webber and Company can find UOJ in the Book of Concord, but they can also excuse working with Floyd Stolzenburg - knowing the facts.

I keep telling people - "When the bills are paid for all the lawsuits in the SynConference, for knowingly helping sex offenders in church vocations, your Holy Mother Synod will be gone, knocked into the dustbin."

So meditate night and day on the Mueller quotation below. It explains it all.

Our Great Heritage - get the irony?
Our Great Heritage of false doctrine, Enthusiasm, and abuse.

The Milwaukee Nine - WELS Has Expulsion in Its DNA

When Holy Mother WELS is questioned,
the fat lady has already sung.
"You are damned to Hell," she explains, lovingly and patiently.

In the 1970s, Bill and Jane Kerner objected to WELS schools taking government money to enhance the science lab. This concerned Wisconsin Lutheran High School - WELS, which is now failing, in spite of the wonderful voucher plan to grab tax money for "private" schools.

California wrote:

Some people in a congregation in a suburb of Milwuakee objected. At least one family had students in the high school at the time.  The names of those specific parents were Bill and Jane Kerner.   The objecting parents tried to go through synod channels to stop the grants, using the synod's own doctrinal statement that WELS did not seek government grants.  They got no where. At one point  synod official said, the school hadn't "sought the grants, but grants were offered to them". So the objectors went public with the information.  The issue hit the front pages of the Milwaukee newspapers. That as has been the "unforgivable sin" for decades, resulted in their being told one Sunday morning by their pastor that they were could not participate in  communion that morning. There were other WELS people who were sympathetic to them, who made their sympathy known.   Eventually what became to be known as the "Milwaukee Nine" were all excommunicated over the issue.   



I had followed the situation through articles in Christian News, and had expressed support for their position to them via snail mail..no internet in those days. Christian News also published my letter to the editor supporting the "Milwaukee Nine".   Through the individual correspondence I remained informed by the some of the principles involved who appealed their excommunication through synod channels, but the excommunication was upheld.   After having exhausted all internal avenues, the Kerners  filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin court relating the acceptance of government grants making the high school (WELS) subject to non discriminating hiring practices etc.   The case was ultimately dismissed by the court.   I still have copies of the legal briefs associated with that lawsuit and articles about it from Milwaukee newspapers.

Therefore, discussing and voting in WELS is a charade that ends in expulsion - so much for UOJ. Jesus died on the cross so a pin-headed pastor could say, "You disagree about funding the science lab, so I will not commune you." No wonder WELS has grown (smaller) by leaps and bounds.


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WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "Wendland's UOJ Paper":

Thank you Brett. Yes, the link is provied on the SCD web page, yet I could not share the actual pdf itself. I was too lazy to provide the link, seeing as how one needs a strong cup of coffee before reading "material" from Wendland. Yes, I skimmed it first to scout our the troubled statements.(aka the statements that Pastor GJ would be most unhappy to read)

In Christ,
Rebecca

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The puppy finally realized it was a bad plan.

GJ -  Rebecca, I am happy to see WELS leaders expose the dogma they have hidden from the public for so many decades. They love to spin the news via Otten, but they do not like any discussion of doctrine.

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WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "Synod Minders Defeat Themselves":

Tell the synod minders "No", we we will not ACCEPT the NNIV. Murdoch is a FRAUD and I will not allow the WELS to told what to do bu outside forces..."ain't" gonna a happen!

Keep telling them No, and if they do not not listen, tell them onece again "NO"!!!

In Christ,
Rebecca

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GJ - The NNIV voting is a joke, just like the amalgamation vote, which failed at the convention. Did that failure to approve amalgamation matter? No, they reported amalgamation as passing and jumped into all the contracts to merge the schools. WELS pastors told me that the total cost was going to be $8 million but ended up $30 million. I cannot verify that - until The Love Shack officially denies it.

Clergy will say, once again, "This is a hill I won't die on." Eventually there are no hills left - ask ELCA exiles.

The LCA and ALC went into the 1987 merger with a handful of congregations jumping ship. The clergy and congregations went along with all the gay quotas, property grabs, and dogmatic apostasy. Anyone who dissented was not a team player, odd to the point of fanaticism, a redneck, a Fundie, a Bircher, a Right-to-Lifer. The ice curtain descended on those who voiced objections. Most of them stayed around and did very little. The ELCA bishops (retired) of the NALC all championed the merger, its crafts and assaults.

SP Harrison Finally Drops the Hammer on the District Popes

The University Lutheran Chapel was built in a prime location and paid for by its supporters. The LCMS district decided it was theirs to grab and sell, so they sold it to a developer.

The Minnesota DPs are the ones who got a known, convicted sex offender into their quickie pastor program and gave him an opportunity to offend again. No, this is Missouri, not WELS.

More information can be found at the links below.

The district fights back, ELCA-style.

From Joshua Sheer, who favors the ULC as it was, before the Left Foot of Fellowship was extended.

Plenty of documents from ULC are here.

Facebook page - and it is not Party in the ULC.

Henry E. Jacobs Collection

WELS Gets the Leaders It Deserves

Dom Perignon Patterson, so named for his rich tastes, was demoted to District Pope this year.

Deputy Doug Engelbrecht was re-elected.

The funny part is - Joel Lillo thinks Ichabod readers care about his local election rather than divine election.

Plagiarism Update - Paul McCain.

Mrs. Ichabod asked this morning, "Has McCain plagiarized anything new today?"

I said, "Not yet."

When I saw that Aardvark Alley posted on the Nicean Council, I looked up Cyberbrethren. There was the AA post, with some slight improvements over blatant plagiarism.

Pope Paul wrote  HT: Aardvark Alley  and linked AA's URL. But that was at the end of the post.

I appreciated that he left the links in the post, which included AA links and Wikipedia, but attribution belongs at the beginning, to show that the entire post is from AA. As any freshman in college knows, Paul's bottom of the page citation means, "I got the ideas from AA, but the words are all mine."

The comments from various people thank Paul  - as if he wrote the post:



Stuart
June 12th, 2010 at 06:43 | #1 Reply | Quote
Thank you for this, it’s so healthy to remember these great events in our heritage….


Randy Bosch
June 12th, 2010 at 16:14 | #2 Reply | Quote
Thanks for sharing this brief commemorative recapitulation.
Historical critical “progressives” have cast out the record in favor of revisions to meet a secular agenda, making republishing of the true story extremely critical.
A link to a publication with the complete and accurate history of the early Councils would be very valuable!


Jonathan Trost
June 12th, 2012 at 07:21 | #3 Reply | Quote
Thanks for that good prayer and article, Pastor.
I’ve read that “Vatican II” (1962) changed the Nicene Creed from “I believe…” to “We believe…”, amd that many American Protestant churches (ELCA, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Reformed) have followed suit.
Do(es) any here know the purpose and significance, if any, of this change?
Thanks!

Bruce Kintz had something about social media on Facebook. I posted my URL about his underling's plagiarism. Bruce acted fast! He erased my post and unfriended me.

CPH - Dummies Guide To Blogging.

Note that Bruce gets $320,000 a year to run a publishing business that will not tolerate plagiarism of their books. But his $180,000 a year subordinate, Paul McCain, can plagiarize while lecturing his betters on how to blog.

York Minster gets new carpet made of grass - Weird News - Digital Spy.Not Weird. We English Are Just Non-conformists

York Minster gets new carpet made of grass - Weird News - Digital Spy:


The dinner is thought to attract over 900 guests and is being held to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, as well as to raise money for the York Minster Fund.

The live grass is called 'Wow! Grass!' and has been donated by local company Lindum which manufactures it. The product was first launched at last year's Chelsea Flower Show. The grass is grown in specially-adapted felt that is made from recycled British textiles, rather than soil.

This grass has been used at various other locations such as the indoor rugby pitch that was created at the Grosvenor Hotel in London and the mock village green at Trafalgar Square. They have also made grass sofas for the National Trust.

Cathedral Chamberlain Dr Richard Shephard said of the occasion: "The need for funds to restore and conserve the historic fabric of the Minster is never-ending and I am sure that this extraordinary event will do much to assist us in our work."

York Minster.

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Brett Meyer - On Schmauk

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Schmauk - The Real Question":

I believe Theodore Schmauk is actually touching on a very pertinent issue for today. That is, there are many false teachers and apostates leading the Lutheran Synods today  - who claim a subsciption to the Christian Book of Concord but in their teaching and practice they ape the decision theology and new age religions.

As much as an orthodox Lutheran claims a quia subscription to the entire Book of Concord, the orthodox Lutheran will also acknowledge by that very subscription that the BOC is also the Christian Book of Concord because  of its faithfulness, by the grace and mercy of God, is for all Christians in Christ's Church and all Lutherans in Christ's Church. If there were such a thing as a Glendite who subscribes to a confession which is completely faithful to Scripture it would then also be completely faithful to the Christian Book of Concord and what it is called would not make a difference. But, if that confession - and certainly they confess in doctrine and practice - is contrary to the Christian Book of Concord - then it is required that they prove their doctrine in as much as it's everyone's responsibility to prove his public teaching and practice.

I'm liking this bold Theodore Schmauk more and more.

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GJ - He is greatly neglected. He did not belong to Walther's cult, so he is ignored by the SynConference. Besides, that is one big book to read. People do not sign onto apostasy because they like to work hard.

ELCA would learn a lot from Schmauk, but he is positively Medieval to them.

I re-read some modern theology books in the last week. They have a completely different spirit. They do not blush when they express their abiding admiration for Karl Barth and like-minded apostates. My Anglican friend from Notre Dame put it this way - "Faith without belief." He pointed out a good book for me to read, Blessed Rage for Order. I was shocked until he said, "That is perfect for Christians with a sentimental attachment to the Bible."

Synod Minders Defeat Themselves

The government was clever in setting up charter schools. What are they? - tax supported schools, giving the illusion of independence while providing their own non-competition. If there is a public school and a charter school in the same area, how much is left for the truly private school?

Many companies do the same thing to control the market. If they have 50% of the market in the main entity and 25% in the secondary one, the pee-wees can struggle for the last segment.

The so-called dissenter groups in Lutherdom have the same function. They fuss and fume a bit, but obey orders from above. Notice that the Steadfast Harrison lobby silenced themselves on one of the worst felony abuse cases ever - in Minnesota.

Likewise, one can easily find Intrepids reporting back to SP Schroeder and making sure the group does not get too robust in objecting to anything, Divide and conquer works well. They vent their steam before it counts and have nothing to say when it does.

SP Mark Schroeder constantly supports and rewards the worst in WELS - and he was the solution? I warned one of his buddies about that, reminding him about Gurgle being the synod's salvation and the answer to amalgamation.

DP Jon Buchholz was against the Jeff Gunn sheep-stealing operation, until recently. Gunn has also been rewarded repeatedly.

Buchholz signed the petition against Mark Jeske before the last convention, then spoke for Jeske when it came to a vote.

Voting is a real hoot. Everyone - discuss and vote on the NNIV. The rock-ribbed orthodox leaders of WELS have already decided for the Murdoch Bible, because it is just as dumbed-down as they are. They no longer have the spiritual discernment to articulate Biblical, Lutheran doctrine, so they lust for a Bible that will teach Universal Objective Justification, their only dogma.

God has the last laugh. There is something in the Psalms about that. The more the apostates win, the more they lose.

KJV Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Synod Minders Defeat Themselves":

The single best word to describe the synod minders is unprincipled. Last weekend, I had a discussion with a synod minder who wears the guise of a crypto-calvinist. He is a member of the WELS congregation which I left several years ago and still wants me to come back. It was under his watch as congregation president that they hired Jeff Davis as a consultant to fleece the members in a third capital appeal. Now, he wants to have a trademark Praise Band for this congregation to make an even bigger name for this Tower of Babel. The synod minders like to attach themselves like barnacles on a ship to the movers and shakers. All that they end up doing is selling out for a bowl of porridge.

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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Synod Minders Defeat Themselves":

Ichabod -

You stated about WELS:

"Voting is a real hoot. Everyone - discuss and vote on the NNIV. The rock-ribbed orthodox leaders of WELS have already decided for the Murdoch Bible, because it is just as dumbed-down as they are. They no longer have the spiritual discernment to articulate Biblical, Lutheran doctrine, so they lust for a Bible that will teach Universal Objective Justification, their only dogma." [Your descriptive words]

When I read [this] what you said about WELS and its leadership's apparent dabbling and fascination with the new NIV11 Ruppert Murdoch Bible, I was reminded of the following Scripture:

"And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul." - Psalm 106:15

I believe that somehow, certain groups within the pale of Christendom and, also some followers of "Christian" denominations, including Lutherans, read, study, preach and teach the Scripture, thinking that the same Scripture applies to the world, but not, really to them.

I've stated before on Ichabod (in so many words) that the stage was being set by WELS leadership to welcome the new NIV 11 Bible translation as the official synodical publication. And, as I am becoming even more convinced, that gender neutral translation is abominable.

Nathan M. Bickel - emeritus pastor

www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org

Confessional Crisis Began Early in America - Thanks to Pietism

Pastor Nathan Bickel had questions about my Theodore Schmauk quotations. I am going to give a little historical overview.

Bishop Stephan came over with the Saxon group and established a Pietistic cult in Missouri. Walther took over and the Missouri Synod experienced what other Pietistic groups saw in America. The Pietism of Europe
was under attack by American Evangelicals.

Each group had its Pietistic origins and base, plus a renewed study of the Lutheran confessions. The Augustana Synod (Swedish) was very much like Missouri - Pietism blended with the Lutheran orthodoxy of the post-Concord era. There was a great deal of interest in Luther, too (unlike today).

No one said, "We are not Lutherans, we are Pietists," but they were Halle Pietists. Labels mean little today, too. Most of the modern Lutheran groups consider themselves confessional, and each one is the true Lutheran standard-bearer. They all agree about that label when they meet at Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, and Sweet retreats - especially when they share in Thrivent events and training.

Schmauk probably saw the positive trend toward the Confessions going backwards when he wrote Confessional Principle. He was saying, as I often do, that the formality of confessional subscription is meaningless. What really matters is - what are you teaching and what will you leave behind?

Liberal Lutherans were bending in the direction of evolution, New Testament text manipulation, and working together in One Big Happy Christian Family. Those influences moved liberals away from the Confessions, because the Book of Concord and Luther were obstacles in the way of true progress.

The Social Gospel (political activism of the church) was already starting when Schmauk wrote his book. They had a little group that gathered (The Brotherhood of the Kingdom) and eventually influenced every denominational with its Social Gospel Creed. The Federal Council of Churches, renamed the National Council of Churches, was the agency for promoting ecumenism and the Social Gospel. The World Council of Churches was a separate entity, a bigger and badder version, with the same agenda. Each denomination had its sub-group, such as the Lutheran World Federation.

Chemnitz and the Concordists held that their doctrine was the original teaching of the Apostles and the early Christian Church - not a Lutheran brand.

Thanks to modern Pietism, Lutheran organizations promote their brand rather than Biblical, confessional doctrine. The Lutheran groups are all quite similar, as Sasse observed, simply arriving at the same omega point at slightly different times, like the cars in a train.

I had to show how Lutherans fell into the Social Gospel Movement, when I wrote my PhD dissertation at Notre Dame. Dr. Bruce Wenger thought it was amusing that I was trying to explain Lutheran mergers and splits to a Mennonite, a Roman Catholic, and a blend (Yoder, Gleason, and Hauerwas - in that order). Wenger was trained in medicine and was an expert in physiology, at Yale and Harvard.

The research paralleled what happened with the Church Growth Movement in Lutherdom. The same tactics were used, the same denials issued, the same apostasy rewarded.

Charles Krauth - On Creeds

"When error is admitted into the Church, it will be found that the stages of its progress are always three. It begins by asking toleration. Its friends say to the majority: You need not be afraid of us; we are few, and weak; only let us alone; we shall not disturb the faith of others...Indulged in this for a time, error goes on to assert equal rights. Truth and error are two balancing forces...From this point error soon goes on to its natural end, which is to assert supremacy."
Charles P. Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology, Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House, 1871, p. 195f.

"An age of darkness is a creedless age; corruption in doctrine works best when it is unfettered by an explicit statement of that doctrine."
Charles P. Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology, Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House, 1871, p. 215.

This is a good example of abusing the Confessions to excuse apostasy.
The world was longing for Wayne Mueller, MDiv, The Sausage Factory,
to overturn Luther.
The Book of Concord demands it!
Mueller, Valleskey, Bivens, Glende are 100% UOJ and  Church Growth.
Bring on the UOJ New NIV.

Wendland's UOJ Paper

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "WELS Church Lady Will Release Link for Paul Wendla...":

http://scdwels.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/not-ashamed-of-the-gospel.pdf

Sorry, couldn't wait.

Wendland (purveyor of the new age NNIV)"God’s Word can only be a hidden treasure to speakers of English today if we willfully refuse to read the versions God has so abundantly provided for us." p.1

Wendland (teaching seminarians Church Growth wisdom that the (W)ELS has nurtured for years) "
5 Note: I am not suggesting that our possession of such authority means that we must be confrontational in our evangelism style or authoritarian in our approach to preaching and teaching. In a postmodern age, such approaches may, at times, place unnecessary stumbling blocks in the way of the truth." p3

Wendland (speaking in the (W)ELS Universalist language) "It (the gospel) is rather a radical rescue mission that was planned in eternity, yet rooted in time. It is about God working through history to save the human race." p4

Wendland (More (W)ELS Universalism) "Here Paul teaches that there is an astounding secret at the heart of every matter in the universe. At the center of the universe, there is God. And at the center of God, at the core of his innermost being, there is love, a fiery love, a powerful love that will not rest until it gathers together all his people—everyone of them, you and me included—and brings them—everyone one of them, you and me included—safely home to his glory." p5

Wendland (Quoting Scripture and then perverting it as only apostate UOJ confessing Lutherans can when denegrating the Holy Spirit's faith) "For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” 3) Churches of the Reformation have more typically understood it as referring to the gift of righteousness that God makes to humanity in the forgiveness of sins (Ro 5:16-18; see also Php 3:5). p7

Wendland (UOJ - the same UOJ that is fed to the New Age Religions future pastors) "He declares us all innocent, and does so freely, gratis, unconditionally (3:24)." ... "There, too, he shows his grace by justifying—declaring righteous—the guilty sinner.".... "In view of the last day—the day of wrath, that dreadful day—no wonder Paul revels in the gospel’s declaration of “Not guilty!”" p8

Ugh - I can't read any more of this tripe.

Scripture, the Christian Lutheran Confessions, Luther and Hunnius condemn Wendlands false gospel and do so vigorously and without reservation.

Hunnius' Theses Opposed to Huberianism is available for $10 on Amazon dot com.

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Typical Appleton Post - UOJ Plagiarists Who Defend UOJ Plagiarists

I cannot find a citation when it is in 14 point Arial.
I graduated from Mequon,
and I STUDIED GREEK!

 

Anonymous said...

LOL.

Did you see Jackson explode?

It is ok for Jackson to post texts on his blog without citing their source, where he got them, what translation they are, etc. It's ok for Jackson to copy and paste huge chunks of materials from other blog sites with no credit to them.

But not anybody else.

Oh, silly Greggy.

Funny, funny stuff.

June 11, 2012 3:46 PM

The citation is cleverly hidden on the bottom line of the graphic, above. I often link the Luther/BOC material directly with a URL. That is not necessary now, since they are all linked on the blog, from the same, easy-to-find table of contents.

I will link that here, because Fox Valley WELS guys can find their Groeschel but not their Book of Concordia (sic).

Schmauk - Tell It Not in Gath

"Shall we permit this to be done! in the name of Christian unity! and by a latitudinarianism that is our own heritage, which rises ever anew from the embers of the past to find such veiled support and strength in the citadel of Zion that Confessionalism is told to whisper low in Jerusalem lest she be heard on the streets of Gath." Theodore E. Schmauk and C. Theodore Benze, The Confessional Principle and the Confessions, as Embodying the Evangelical Confession of the Christian Church, Philadelphia: 1911, p. 941.                                                        

Schmauk - On Demi-Semi Close Communion

"Is the Lord's Supper the place to display my toleration, my Christian sympathy, or my fellowship with another Christian, when that is the very point in which most of all we differ; and in which the difference means for me everything--means for me, the reception of the Savior's atonement? Is this the point to be selected for the display of Christian union, when in fact it is the very point in which Christian union does not exist?" Theodore E. Schmauk and C. Theodore Benze, The Confessional Principle and the Confessions, as Embodying the Evangelical Confession of the Christian Church, Philadelphia: 1911, p. 905f.                                                       

Theodore Schmauk - Modern Radical Spirit

"The modern radical spirit which would sweep away the Formula of Concord as a Confession of the Church, will not, in the end, be curbed, until it has swept away the Augsburg Confession, and the ancient Confessions of the Church--yea, not until it has crossed the borders of Scripture itself, and swept out of the Word whatsoever is not in accord with its own critical mode of thinking. The far-sighted rationalist theologian and Dresden court preacher, Ammon, grasped the logic of a mere spirit of progress, when he said: 'Experience teaches us that those who reject a Creed, will speedily reject the Scriptures themselves.'" Theodore E. Schmauk and C. Theodore Benze, The Confessional Principle and the Confessions, as Embodying the Evangelical Confession of the Christian Church, Philadelphia: General Council Publication Board, 1911, p. 685. 

Schmauk - The Real Question

"The real question is not what do you subscribe, but what do you believe and publicly teach, and what are you transmitting to those who come after? If it is the complete Lutheran faith and practice, the name and number of the standards is less important. If it is not, the burden of proof rests upon you to show that your more incomplete standard does not indicate an incomplete Lutheran faith." Theodore E. Schmauk and C. Theodore Benze, The Confessional Principle and the Confessions, as Embodying the Evangelical Confession of the Christian Church, Philadelphia: 1911, p. 890.