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I pointed out that Missouri and Team Harrison have been working with ELCA for decades.
Gregory L. Jackson Let the full fellowship with ELCA continue, making it so easy to play holier than thou.
That lit up the comments. The LCMS pastors bemoaning the Supreme Court decisions were on my case right away.
Their continued work with ELCA means they support women's ordination, gay marriage and ordination. The Supreme Court justices simply followed the policies already established by the mainline church bodies. WELS, Missouri, and the Little Sect on the Prairie are mainline because they are happy to work with ELCA on ELCA's terms, as long as they get to eat the crumbs that fall from the table. ELCA gets the most Thrivent money. Missouri gets $50 to $60 million per year. WELS and the ELS get far less.
The joint projects are no longer hailed as they once were, since bozos and rubes like you and me objected to the "conservative" sects looking down their noses at ELCA while working on religious projects with them.
One LCMS pastor called me a hater and a liar, so I asked why. He told his fellow rock-throwers, "Let me handle him." He went silent but unfriended me on Facebook. Oh the pain.
Jack Kilcrease was commenting, but I have him blocked, or he blocked me. Either way, I could not see his remarks or have fun with them.
Speaking of Jack, I got this email from his flack:
Greetings Gregory L. Jackson,
Wipf and
Stock Publishers has recently released a book by Jack D. Kilcrease we thought
may be of interest to you: The Self-Donation of God: A Contemporary Lutheran
Approach to Christ and His Benefits.
Jack believes you might be interested in his new publication and suggested we
send you this one-time announcement for this book.
Attached
you will find an excerpt for your immediate consideration.
Book
Details:
Kilcrease, Jack D.
The
Self-Donation of God: A Contemporary Lutheran Approach to Christ and His
Benefits
Wipf
and Stock
ISBN
13: 978-1-62032-605-3
Retail: $36
Pub.
Date: 3/20/2013
If you
are interested in a review copy of this new book feel free to direct those
inquiries to James Stock, our Marketing Director, James@wipfandstock.com. Please indicate the
journal you are associated with or if you would like to consider the text for
textbook adoption.
Best
wishes,
Michael Munk
***
I responded:
"Hahahahahahaha."
I am not digressing in writing about Jack Kilcrease - he loves it. How else can he get 2,000 page views?
My point at the beginning is this - the Holy Spirit convicts people of their unbelief. All the "conservative" clergy will howl, "But we believe."
As Mary Thompson has pointed out in many communications, if they believed, they would not work with ELCA and Thrivent for the money. They would not depend on the government for tax revenue, bawling when it runs short. They would not be part of the United Nations' dubious money-raising schemes.
They cannot participate with homosexual and lesbian pastors and object to the Supreme Court mandating gay marriage, but they do. That requires a profound commitment to hypocrisy, which is the honor that vice pays to virtue. But, as Luther said, hypocrisy is still a sin.
My experience in the LCA conditioned me against adulterous pastors, not that I favored it before. I even knew of one LCA pastor who carried on his affair for decades with the knowledge and permission of his members, but he still did enormous damage to his family and congregation. In the Michigan Synod of the LCA, adulterous pastors could leave their wives for their parish girlfriends and stay in that congregation.
The Michigan District of WELS was no better, and the clergy were even more hopped up to protect their adulterous friends in the name of the Gospel. Many informants have told me how this is rampant in WELS and the ELS, with the same goody-two-shoes attitude I mentioned before.
False doctrine--the UOJ of ELCA, WELS, ELS, and LCMS--has found a home in the name of Luther, with alleged blessings from Jesus. Tell me again how Jesus has declared polytheists and atheists righteous and saved, without faith and even without the Word. That is the anonymous Christian blarney of Rahner and the Ultimate Concern of Tillich.
