They Want Y'all To Debate the Small Stuff - And Leave Justification by Faith Alone

Here is another Pietist with his enabling wife.
Schaap is in the Big House now, for discipling minor girls.

The LCMS is meeting in convention and leaving people upset that a bureaucracy behaves like a bureaucracy.

The purpose of a meeting, according to Roberts' Rules, is to allow the people present to direct the actions of a group. However, the leaders do not want to hear from the hoi polloi. They only want votes of approval, so the death spiral continues. The so-called mission of the LCMS, WELS, and ELS is to provide fat salaries and luxurious benefits for the few who bite and claw their way to the bottom (that is, the bureaucracy) so they can live like the Rich Man and not like Lazarus.

Continuing SMP is a nod to Bishop Stephan,
the first SMP, who never graduated and never earned his credentials.
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/04/lcms-case-darwin-schauer-convicted-sex.html

I guess the convention voted to continue the fake pastor program, called SMP, because I saw posts about ignoring AC XIV.

Article XIV: Of Ecclesiastical Order.

Of Ecclesiastical Order they teach that no one should publicly teach in the Church or administer the Sacraments unless he be regularly called.

I countered by saying, "Why not? They have been teaching against AC IV and V for 150 years."

That earned some snarling rebukes from the UOJ Storm-Brownies. Am I wrong?

Article IV: Of Justification.

1] Also they teach that men cannot be justified before God by their own strength, merits, or works, but are freely justified for 2] Christ's sake, through faith, when they believe that they are received into favor, and that their sins are forgiven for Christ's sake, who, by His death, has made satisfaction for our sins. 3] This faith God imputes for righteousness in His sight. Rom. 3 and 4.

Article V: Of the Ministry.

1] That we may obtain this faith, the Ministry of Teaching the Gospel and administering the Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments, 2] the Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in them that hear 3] the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits, but for Christ's sake, justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ's sake.

4] They condemn the Anabaptists and others who think that the Holy Ghost comes to men without the external Word, through their own preparations and works. 

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By now readers understand that Stephan and Walther came to America to preserve the sex cult established by the bishop's cell group ministry. They settled in a slave state and chose poor land far away in Perryville rather than develop a much better offer in St. Louis. As Zion on the Mississippi shows, Stephan's female groupies were causing talk and the locals were ready to measure out some rope for His Grace.

Walther did not repristinate Lutheran orthodoxy but continued the hybrid Pietism/Rationalism that he learned from his formal education and voluntary association with Pietists, first under one leader who died and then under Martin Stephan, who lied. But so did his blind followers, who saw nothing wrong with their bishop leaving his wife behind and sailing to America with his mistress and groupies. CFW Walther and the rest made Stephan their bishop for life.

Walther taught against the Augsburg Confession because he continued in the double justification taught to him by Stephan. Moreover, Walther had to control everything and be the boss of everything, even down to editing the dogmatics books.

The UOJ movement grew and almost devoured justification by faith in the LCMS. Still, many today do not bow the knee to Stephan, even though his first followers were always on their knees to him. But Stephan and Walther always win when Missourians choose to battle over the small stuff while avoiding the Gospel, justification by faith, the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace.

Wut?

"The Word of His Grace"
Tolja. Tolja. Tolja.
See the post below - UOJ is all grace,
according to the myth-makers.