Someone wrote that I was making him feel bad about being in the LCMS and what was he to do? I will not go into everything - I certainly understand how he feels.
Luther and the Evangelicals did not get together and form a new denomination. They taught the Word of God and were excommunicated or persecuted out or hated out of The Church.
As in the Reformation, the biggest problem today is in the leadership of the synods and schools. The worst are at the top and they are not going to leave their plush salaries, their deluxe benefits, and their light workloads. They not only suffer fools gladly, but promote them.
My opinion is that the WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) will collapse soon enough from their nastiness, abuse of people, and blatant false doctrine - encased and mummified from years of tradition. They venerate their traditions (like GA abuse) and worship dead leaders whom they place above Luther and the Reformers.
Jesus spoke often against the Pharisees of His day and the same tribe of the future. They are the Lutherans who navigate the shoals of false doctrine so they can enjoy their sinecures, honoring the 10,000 of being a good WELSian, Little Norwegian, or CLC despot.
I know there are a few good WELS pastors, but the supply will soon reach zero. I have my doubts about the Little Sect on the Prairie and the CLC (sic) having any pastors or leaders who comprehend and teach Justification by Faith, which is the Chief Article.
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| Ouch! Spurgeon knew what was developing. Many Babtist leaders today know the Gospel that UOJists deny, and that is Lutherdom's great shame. |
Which synod to join or leave? - that is not the Chief Article. In the 19th century most Lutherans taught the Chief Article and honored the doctrinal, Biblical work of the Reformation. Nevertheless, Walther chose to divide Lutherans - even his own allies - with his idiotic notions borrowed from a diseased, neurologically compromised bishop of his own choosing.
Who was worse, Stephan and his female groupies, or Walther's circle of brainless bishop-disciples? Which was worse, having the Walther circle gather money from the cell groups, or Walther stealing all that money back and leaving the bishop in Illinois to die of syphilis?
Missouri is dying from its own mythology, but there is a lot of health left in the LCMS. As I wrote before, the strength of Missouri is its lack of unity. They have ELCA lite congregations, Lutheran congregations, and Walther Worship societies.
The Walther UOJ Worshipers are assassins, waiting to pounce upon and gratuitously insult anyone who questions their not-so-secret cult. But one LCMS pastor estimates there are 500 fellow clergy who teach Justification by Faith.
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| The lazy, fat clergy should not read the introduction, which urges people to deprive them of food, bait them with dogs, pelt them with manure, and drive them out of town. |
I do not have the roadmap to those good congregations.
Sometimes I know. Usually I do not. Those who want an honest confession will find it, but not always locally.
I would like to see people worship in their own local congregation. I have directed people toward local churches first, if I have any knowledge. Some find that there is nothing around them and worship with us through Ustream, live streaming and saved files.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bethany-lutheran-worship
Each one has an obligation to study the Scriptures and the Confessions. For example, both Catechisms are very good on this issue - about the first Three Commandments.
I do not mean a given edition. Does anyone realize that the "editions" are synodical Talmuds designed to brainwash their members? Luther did not write his Small Catechism and say, "I am not done here. Y'all need a massive expensive book to make this really effective." Thus Kuske replaced Gausewitz and Gausewitz did little more than provide Scripture for each section (as I recall).
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| Jay Webber and the ELS love the False Gospel, agreeing with Rambach, Walther, and other simpletons. |
