A discussion stated that off-campus seminary education is so prevalent that
"In our synod [ELCA district], of the 7-8 people who have been in candidacy over the last 3-4 years, only one is resident at sem."
Consider that, Cubs fans. That may be an extreme example, but it points toward the consecrated piles of brick and marble becoming monuments, memorials, and mausoleums.
That is already becoming true at the LCMS UOJ incense factories, Mordor, and the Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
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