We teach what believe, unless the two clash, which can only be bad for individual. The SynCon leaders continue this farce, each one acting superior to the others in the LCMS-WELS-ELS configuration - and to ELCA! - but in full agreement about their hostility to Luther's Biblical doctrine and work with ELCA.
The issue is not Luther as an authority, but the doctrine itself. The LCMS-WELS-ELS leaders remind me of the Goths who liked to hang around the computer lab at the community college in Phoenix. The Goths enjoyed wearing bicycle chains and locks around their necks, black lipstick, and bizarre clothing - and those were guys. I said to one of my students in their midst, "Ditch these losers." The Goths smirked and twittered among themselves.
So LCMS-WELS-ELS says, "Try and stop us." They have the properties, the endowments, the funding - everything except Biblical doctrine. Now they must feel trapped under heavy blankets, unable to breathe. They are just behind ELCA in finessing a downsizing of all their schools and seminaries. Just as ELCA could get by on Luther and another seminary, so WELS-ELS-LCMS could do well with one seminary instead of four.
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This Little Blog
Ever since we rolled over the 6 million views mark, this little blog has averaged 3,000 views per day. Overnight the views are 1500 or more and accumulate another 1500 or more during the day.
Since many ask, yes I do get positive responses from all over. However, the negative comments have stopped almost completely. Someone needs to join ELDONA for a feast of hostility and name-calling among their loyalists and readers, as hosted by TableTalk@cat41.org - and I quote -
ELDONA:
For Ron Roland and the rest of you lying LCMS pansy=pastors who want to say that *I* am the reason you won’t join ELDoNA, I make you this offer: COLLOQUIZE AND I WILL OFFER THE BISHOP MY RESIGNATION. If I’ve actually done something evil enough to keep you from BEING A CHRISTIAN and confessing the faith by leaving your heterodox body to join an orthodox body, I’m pretty sure that he will already have given me word to repent or be gone before it would ever get to my resigning, anyway.
Do I miss arguing with those who defend the indefensible?
No, I don’t.
Ron Roland: take a hike. When you’re dead and gone that congregation you ‘fixed’ to remain in Missouri will become whatever Missouri becomes, and the Lord can say, “Thank you for caring for only one generation of people and letting their children and grandchildren instead be led into Hell.”
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The above is from a group, ELDONA, that argued for Universalism (UOJ) and worked with the Rolf Preus UOJ Sect for years. And yes, that is the normal ELDONUT level of hostility aimed at anyone who has the misfortune of knowing them. They even hate getting free books and Bibles. One might as well offer them tissues samples from a leper colony. "Make these disappear!"
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| ELDONA and the Rolf Preus Synod, currently pastors of ELDONA, ELS, and the LCMS. |
So, if the Rolf Preus Synod was so close to ELDONA that they met with them, studied with them, perhaps even worshiped with them, how is it that no one brought up Rolf's allegiance to UOJ, as communicated on LutherQuest (sic), his website, and everywhere else except his father's last book, Justification and Rome?
What Really Matters
As one of my favorite authors wrote, what really matters in the end is what we believe, teach, and practice.
We should always be learning and studying the Word, always eager to gain more insights from Luther and the Book of Concord.
There is a big world outside the dying Synodical Conference. A reader took it on himself to provide a library of classics from that world.
Keep track of the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry, which is featured near the top of the left-hand column.
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| Some Questions for the WELS-ELS-LCMS leaders. |
