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| Josh Sullivan does the videos and Paul Rydecki translates the books. |
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| The Right Reverend Bishop James Heiser, STM |
ELDONA has become a strange bunch, now that "they have reached critical mass," - their words. But they have fallen into a familiar pattern for the micro-mini sects - defining themselves against the group they left. That leaves out the most important part of teaching - starting with the Lutheran Reformation and faithful Bible translations.
The CLC (sic) worries about WELS/ELS, who ignore the sacrament of donkey basketball. Missouri frets over the Leftwing lunacy of the ELCA, although that never prevents them from joint ministry projects with ELCA. Ditto WELS.
Since ELDONA is comprised of a bishop who recruited willing underlings, should not the bishop take a leadership role in teaching, even through YouTube? I was watching Fulton Sheen last night, a long-time fave of traditional Roman Catholics. He invented mainline media evangelism, and he was very good at it, for his time. But Fulton crossed Cardinal Spellman, once described as "that fat, little liar" when they quarreled over $1 million. Sheen collected the money, which Spellman considered his own. Even in Romanism, it's all about the Benjies. Sheen lost and was consigned to the Roman equivalent of Steam Corners, Ohio.
Once Sullivan began with the errors of LCMS resolutions, my brain shut down. The resolution jungle is parallel with the WELS essay norm. A WELS essay is normative if they want it to be, but only in those parts blessed by WELS. A current loud and proud atheist defended Church Growth while being a WELS pastor, but that does not matter. He defended their Helen of Troy, which happens to be everyone's Helen of Troy - Church Growth. Ditto with Richard Jungkuntz, who was kicked out of WELS for being a liberal on the Scriptures. He was ultra-UOJ, which makes him ultra-cool. The only PhDs in WELS at the time were both kicked out for being liberal on the Scriptures. Jungkuntz joined the LCMS and became a seminary professor and theologian for them. But no matter, he was UOJ! He was caught up in the Jack Preus revolution and joined The ALC as a college professor. But no matter, his essay stays in the WELS Holy of Holies because of UOJ.
For Missouri, UOJ is correct because they voted for the Brief Statement of 1932, which they largely ignore. And yet they rest their confidence on the UOJ in that convention document, the early (but not late) statements of Robert Preus, and the sacred exclamations of David Scaer, whose doctrine resembles Tourette's more than the Book of Concord.
Heiser made vesting in the LCMS pension plan more important than leaving Holy Mother Synod. He supposedly rejected UOJ once he found out what it was - in 2000 - but look at how many years passed before that was even mentioned, let along rejected by ELDONA.
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| Packing them in at an ELDONA conference. |
