ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
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| The Fuller paradigm is to establish a personality cult, like Mark Jeske's, but that is not Luther's concept. |
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| "Settled doctrine" is a phrase used in WELS to substitute for a raised fist. |
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| Luther needs no explanation. |
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| Being inept in Luther's doctrine is a prime requirement for synodical leadership today. |
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| I thought Ambrose opposed justification by faith - perhaps Buchholz and his confirmation teach, Jay Webber, have a different edition of the Book of Concord. |
