LCMS pastors continue to annoy me with their struggles to deal with tyrannical District Presidents, intent on working within a system that was broken at the start. What keeps them from starting independent congregations with their CRM (Canceled Removed Ministers) friends? Fear, timidity, caution, salary and benefits, worship of Holy Mother Abusive Sect.
The trouble with LCMS and its overt partners (WELS and ELS)* is the behavior of their founder Stephan and his acolyte Walther. Stephan insisted on total obedience, and Walther served as the enforcer who made sure the punishment of errant pastors took place. The clergy knew that Stephan was a notorious adulterer. The founder's reputation was so bad in Dresden that Sihler (later a Missouri leader) would not participate in any of the conventicles. * ELCA and Thrivent are covert partners in ministry, as their websty once stated.
And yet, we are supposed to believe that Loerber was shocked to learn of this adultery in America, so he rushed to tell bosom buddy Walther, who promptly organized a riot to rob, threaten, and kidnap Stephan. As Zion on the Mississippi points out, they were in America because of Stephan's adultery. Stephan was widely known as the adulterous pastor with financial shenanigans, under house arrest. They had plans for leaving Europe but those plans were activated by Stephan's arrest and court trial, where the two lawyers (Vehse and Marbach) represented His Holiness. In other words, all the clergy and the lawyers knew the scoop.
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| $10 used. Shame on you for not reading it, if you choose to defend the Great Walther. |
The Saxon Exit took place because their adulterous bishop no longer had a job in Dresden and no longer had a career in the church. So he packed up his girlfriends and followers, leaving his faithful wife behind, and set off for America. He let his syphilitic children die fatherless in Europe but took his healthy son. Whadda guy.
Walther's carefully organized riot got rid of the leader, seized 120 acres of land that belonged to Stephan, and removed the bishop's gold, books, and personal effects. That was mighty convenient for a bankrupt little group living on poor land picked out by their syphilitic bishop.
Walther trashed anyone who disagreed with him and took great pains to cover up his past, lie about Stephan, and alienate friendly Lutherans. Walther was his own enforcer, and he was just as tolerant of dissent as Stephan was. Question this? Abgeschnitten!
What happens today in the LCMS? There is a permanent hate campaign going on against Loehe, who was the real founder of Missouri. The Loehe congregations organized first and invited the Perryville sex cult to join them. The popular Missouri myth is that the Great Walther created the LCMS and felt himself compelled to perform an exorcism on Loehe.
Other exorcisms included the Ohio and Iowa Synods, plus anyone from the Muhlenberg tradition. They were Pietists! And what was Walther?
CFW attended Pietistic conventicles in college (his only degree) and joined Stephan's cell group ministry when the previous abusive cell group guru died. The Stephanites came over with cell groups because the bishop's congregation had special permission to sponsor conventicles on its property only, a provision constantly violated by Stephan.
Stephan took great pride in his cell group ministry, which has re-emerged in WELS and Missouri.
UOJ is the Stephan-Walther Heritage of Pietism
The UOJ claque slowly took over Missouri, WELS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie. The Loehe people knew better. Ludwig Fuerbringer, who served Frankenmuth (Loehe group), advocated constant study of Luther and the Biblical texts in Hebrew and Greek.
In contrast, his Uncle CFW urged his own expertise on everyone.
The Loehe catechism is all justification by faith. So is the Gausewitz. Missouri got rid of Loehe with its hate campaign, still being carried out feebly by Christian News, another UOJ union shop.
WELS got rid of Gausewitz by replacing him with Kuske's verbose UOJ textbook. Try to find anyone who remembers Gausewitz now. Jim Huebner, Fuller alumni (both natures, divine and human), has conveniently forgotten Gausewitz as the former pastor of his congregation.
UOJ Can Never Be Reconciled with JBFA
The UOJ clowns play a clever game, as long as we keep ourselves ignorant.
First they say there is no difference between UOJ and JBFA - just two sides of the same coin! I missed the coin analogy in the Bible - must be in Second Fritiof.
Second, the UOJ fanatics attack justification by faith at every turn. They never rest. I have never seen such whirling dervishes of cant, falsehood, and lawlessness. Nothing is too base, too disgusting for them. But they give themselves away by warning people away from Luther, away from precision translations of the Bible, away from the Biblical teaching of faith in Jesus.
Nothing makes them crazier in the head than teaching justification by faith and rejecting Universal Objective Justification. And yet, not justification by faith but their precious UOJ is suddenly the "Chief Article of the Christian Faith, the Master and Prince of all other articles." Nice shell game.
Under this shell is the Chief Article. Whoosh. It is UOJ! You thought it was justification by faith? You blasphemous heretic. You must be removed at once.
In short, the descendants of those people who stupidly followed Stephan and Walther are bowing to their tyrannical heirs.
