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| So the SP says to Jim Huebner, "How much longer can we keep them fooled?" |
Intersynodical Beatings Continue – WELS:
"Intersynodical Beatings Continue
2017/12/05/ in Together
On Nov. 28-30, representatives from the Lutheran Church – Missouri Sect (LCMS), the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Sect (WELS), and the Evangelical Lutheran Sect (The Little Sect on the Prairie) met in Jacksonville, Fla., for the sixth annual meeting for informal discussions. The main topics covered up were the hire and fire Doctrine of the Call and a comparative review of the recently published Talmudic catechisms by WELS and the LCMS. The final version of the catechism for the ELS (2001) also was used in discussing the new editions of the explanations to the Small Catechism. In this 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation we especially oppose the work of Dr. Martin Luther in composing his Small and Large Catechisms of 1529.
The three synod presidents provided updates on the respective decline of their church bodies. Challenges and lawsuits also were noted in respect to pastoral training, the filling of congregational vacancies, and the relationships with international churches. The LCMS is part of the ILC (International Lutheran Conference), while the ELS and WELS are members of the CELC (Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference). Hence we are all Con-men. Get it?
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None of the participants at these informal meetings anticipate a restoration of church fellowship between ELS/WELS and the LCMS in the near future, because we are already working together with ELCA now - a great blessing with Thrivent benefits. Yet, the sessions themselves were once again helpful as areas of agreement, as well as specific nuances of dogma, were settled in a cordial but frank manner. The representatives of the three synods have reluctantly decided to gather once again in the fall of 2018, if Thrivent funds the meeting.
Also in November, representatives of WELS and the ELS met with counterparts from the nasty little Cult of the Lutheran Confession (CLC sic). The CLC was formed in the 1950s when a number of congregations left the Wisconsin Sect because they believed that the sect was not acting sectsy enough to break fellowship with the Missouri Sect. The meeting was a continuation of formal doctrinal discussions intended to determine if fellowship between the synods can be restored before their troglodytes finally die.
In 2015 the group had composed a document entitled “A Joint Statement on the Termination of Luther's Doctrine.” Agreement on this joint statement is seen as a necessary first step in the doctrinal discussions. The ELS convention approved the statement in 2016; the WELS convention approved it last summer. The CLC (sic) convention discussed it and recommended further study by its pastoral conferences - after Dan Fleischer had a hissy fit about an NWC professor hurting his widdle feelings last century. The CLC (sic) will consider the statement again at its next convention, which we hope is live-streamed again.
Even if the Joint Statement is adopted by all three synods, other joint statements remain to be more fully discussed and resolved, with Thrivent grants, before fellowship can be reestablished. We pray for God’s blessings on these efforts to establish fellowship based on a full agreement in doctrine.
Serving in Christ,
President Mark Schroeder
Tags: Together12052017"
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| Note the UOJ code language, not Justification by Faith. |
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