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| Why do WELS clergy and laity ignore this example of JP Meyer's Scriptural wisdom while embracing his anti-Christian dogma of UOJ? |
For all the bluster about WELS being Scriptural, in contrast to LCMS dogmatic statements, both sects are the same. They owned the German language and had all the sources at their disposal, but both synods fostered and promoted the anti-Christian cancer of Universal Objective Justification. Meanwhile, they fussed over trivia and staged great debates about adiaphora, avoiding the Chief Article - Justification by Faith.
Note - here is Pastor Vernon Harley's Justification by Faith essay. My wife and I met him and his wife before he died.
John Sparky Brenner is not an analytical historian like Thucydides but a tall tale teller like Herodotus. Here is a good example from his PR book, Jars of Clay.
Pastor John P. Meyer served as president of the WELS seminary,1937-1957. His teaching career spanned many decades. He began at Northwestern College in Watertown in 1902. His dogmatics notes were still be used in the 1980s, proving his post-humus influence.
JP Meyer is known for his commentary on II Corinthians, Ministers of Christ. Brenner wrote:
The commentary is a masterpiece offering, among other things, practical advice on Christian stewardship and insight into the precious doctrine of objective justification. Jars, p. 184.
He also wrote Studies in the Augsburg Confession. Really? His three Kokomo Statements are idiotic and contradict the Augsburg Confess - not to mention the entire Bible, Augustine, Luther, and the Book of Concord.
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| Three of the four Kokomo Statements are from this book and remain unchanged, even though edited by Armin Panning, former seminary president and New Testament Greek professor! |
Where were all the Biblical scholars? the studious laity? the parochial teachers?
WELS plays a game of GA double-talk. They pretend to back away from the Kokomo UOJ Statements but they seethe and hurl anathemas at anyone teaching Justification by Faith. I question whether John Sparky Brenner can even say those three words - Justification by Faith - and explain them from the Scriptures and the Book of Concord.
If UOJ is a precious doctrine, then Justification by Faith must be darkness and corruption. Imagine how distorted the brains of the Mordor students must be upon graduation and ordination in WELS!
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http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2017/05/more-silliness-this-year-at-emmaus.html
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| Supper at Emmaus - by M. Caravaggio Luke 24:30 - 30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. |
Brenner - "Hoenecke, who was a Wisconsin Synod spokesman at a few of the free conferences, explained that doctrine must be drawn from those passages that teach that doctrine. We draw the doctrine of election from those passages that teach the doctrine of election, not from passages that teach justification by faith. Koehler summarizes Hoenecke’s comments from the free conference in Milwaukee in 1903." Emmaus paper.
GJ - Zounds. Hoenecke had no sense of the unified witness of the Scriptures, but chose to follow the thetical approach of Walther. That is - the thesis is solemnly pronounced first, then Scriptures are cited or mismatched to the dogmatic statement.
The Tenth Annual Emmaus Conference
December 20, 2016
- C. F. W. Walther, by the Rev. Dr. Fifth VP Daniel Preus
- A. Hoenecke, by the Rev. Dr. Prof. Spineless John Brenner
- U. V. Koren, by the Rev. Prof. Markos DeGarmeaux
GJ - Daniel, have you read Justification and Rome? How about Romans 4? Romans 5:1-2? The Gospel of John?
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Wherever two or three LCMS leaders are gathered together, CFW Walther worship begins. This Emmaus debacle was held in late April, but the papers are not posted yet. In this day of instant publishing, the papers could have been linked on the website. I recall Mirthless Mark Schroeder did not want his shared, years ago, not that he said anything worth publishing. Here is the non-archive archive.
The May 8th Christian News must be the archive, because they posted some promotional bits and photos about the event...afterwards. Oh dear, I missed the conference altogether. David Becker found the event disappointing, albeit without being there. Compared to WELS Luther Days, where Jay Webber spoke to one (1) person - and Natalie Pratt disappeared with the money - Emmaus 2017 was probably a smash hit.
We all know that Preus descendants are the Agent Orange of Justification by Faith. Whenever they suspect that Luther's doctrine is being taught somewhere, they spray their toxic dogma from Halle Rationalists all over, until nothing is left living: no faith, no Gospel, no fruits of the Gospel.
Does anyone wonder why the ELS is almost gone and WELS is corrupt beyond measure? To those who are kicked out of WELS, I always say, "Good for you. They did you a great favor." Alcoholism and adultery are not problems among WELS clergy and teachers - they are resume enhancers, if someone has the right friends and the wrong doctrine.
The strength of the LCMS is its mix of Pentecostal, ELCA wannabees, Walther worshipers, and Lutherans. The Missouri Synod is such a rainbow coalition that the bureaucrats do not have the power or urge to crack down on the Chief Article of the Christian Faith. Anyway, they have Otten to do their work for them. And Logorrhea - and their Fuller/Rome seminaries.
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| You were born forgiven kids, now don't ask any probing questions about this. |
How bad is WELS? At Mordor Seminary in Mequon, Wendland is the salesman-in-charge of the New NIV. Valleskey was the previous president, based on years of gushing about Church Growth and studying at Fuller with his pal Bivens (also on the faculty). When I was there in 1987, I did not hear Church Growth promoted in the classroom. But once everyone was "finished," they were also required to attend the post MDiv training, which was all Church Growth. Besides that, when I accepted the call to Shepherd of Peace in Columbus, Ohio, the congregation had me attend Paul Kelm's Church Growth "evangelism seminar," which lasted a week. That event was stocked with such CG kahunas as Valleskey, Hartman, Kelm, Larry Olson, and such like.
