Did the LCMS Even Look at These Passages When Promoting Bishop Stephan's Objective Justification as Luther's?

Bishop Stephan learned Objective Justification at Halle University, teaching it to the Walther circle of pastors and teachers, who were also Pietists.
Contrast the Biblical passages below with the recent
deposit of unfaith by the Missouri Synod.

Romans 1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Genesis 15:4 And, behold, the Word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Romans 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him [Abraham] for righteousness.

23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Romans 5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Hebrews 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

For God, For Country, and for Jon Woods: In ex-state legislator's corruption trial, jury told that job for vet's mother part of kickbacks

 For $100,000 a year salary, Oren was not around the campus much, but he suddenly had an assistant for his mostly empty office. Faculty and staff were paid a pittance, but not the new assistant.

In ex-state legislator's corruption trial, jury told that job for vet's mother part of kickbacks:

"FAYETTEVILLE -- A job for a Gold Star mother was part of kickbacks to then-Sen. Jon Woods in return for state General Improvement Fund grants to Ecclesia College, the government argued Friday.

Helping the mother of his childhood friend who was killed in combat in 2011 was an act of compassion, the defense contended.

Oren Paris III, president of Ecclesia at the time, agreed on Aug. 5, 2013 to a request by Woods to hire Elizabeth Newlun as his personal assistant, emails and text messages between him and Woods show. Woods texted Paris an electronic copy of an application form for improvement-fund grants the same day, according to records presented at Woods' trial in federal court."

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A Reader Comments on the Running Sore - aka The CORE in Fox Valley - WELS

 No, I don't see nothing wrong here.

These thin, thin Christians don't know their left from their right, but they know their pastor's favorite color!  Favorite activities!  But, what pleases God?  God wants to justify....but no!  It's all about us!

Makes you want to weep.

Nothing says WELS marital bliss like posing with Katie Perry and posting it on Facebook as the profile picture (Glende) or in the albums (Ski).

I checked out The CORE website because I was curious about Novotny ( and train wrecks).  It was a depressing ( because of where WELS is going from where it once was) and annoying all at once.  Do we really need another evangelical church?  They chuck a few keywords out there to calm the Lutherans, but despite what they claim they aren't fooling everyone.

The CORE Websty and Commentary in Blue

"The purpose of the downtown campus is to have a church that, without compromising our beliefs, removes all barriers possible to reaching people with the lifesaving message of Jesus’ love and gift of salvation."  (emphasis mine)

It's just not true...or maybe it is depending on what "our beliefs" means.  The WELS has fallen in the trap just like the LCMS -- Fads.  What are these barriers?  Peter's sermon in Acts?  Mark 16:16?

Everything they do has a mission statement like goes like this:  "Blah-blah exists....."  Same boiler plate everywhere in the WELS.  It's pervasive.  Off the cliff we go!

 Ski - Glende's pal from prep school - left quite a legacy.
Instead of being canned (with Glende) for various offenses,
Schroeder and Patterson arranged an insta-call for Ski - to Texas.
What do Ski, Glende, and the new guy have in common? -
being mentored by Jeske.

Back to The CORE:

"The CORE exists to transform lives for Christ through faith that is Real, Relevant, and Relational."

In my experience this really means:

"The CORE exists because it's all about you through Christ the Tool." 

Christ the Tool, because because they belittle God and reduce him to their means to corporate evangelical Christianity.  Efficacy of the Word?  Nope.  Efficacy depends on you!  We can do it.....together (through Christ the Tool)!"

Browsing their website reveals the "922 church" as merely an activity center with catchy mantras / themes (cf. http://922church.com/myroots ) and a remarkable lack of Scripture (something I'd never dream to see in a "WELS" church).  And, when they do mention Jesus (the Tool), it's always in an adolescent way.  i.e. Jesus is cool!  We did into the Word and get what we need!

Joel!  Joel!  Where's Osteen?!?!  Just tattoo Jesus' name on it, and we're good to go!

So, they go about their business cultivating thin, thin, lives with shallow, shallow essential doctrine.  When the storms come, it will all blow away.

But, it's all about YOU through Jesus the TOOL.

 The polysect sect leader Mark Jeske arranges joint religious forums for ELCA-WELS-ELS, so they can witness to their common devotion to UOJ, women's ordination, abortion, and Thrivent funding.