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| Jesus cleansing the Temple, by Norma A. Boeckler |
The increasing revelations of crimes against the President have an unwelcome side-effect for the mainline denominations. They remind people of the collapse of their sects. As one life-long Democrat said to me, "I didn't leave the Democrat Party. They left me. I could never support abortion."
The various church organizations - dating back to the 19th century and earlier - are disgraceful in conduct and Stalinist in government.
The oldest denominations - Episcopal, ELCA - are the worst. Virtue Online wrote about Episcopal membership declines, though established and endowed in Colonial days. ELCA continues to get worse, especially since anyone with sense has left, never to return.
Do you remember Lyle Schaller claiming that ELCA would lose 600,000 members when they merged? Mrs. Ichabod and I met Schaller at a conference. WELS was quite taken with him and doubtless thought the 1987 merger would give them an automatic boost. The LCMS was likewise counting on serving as lifeboats for the sinking S.S. ELCA.
Something was missing, as always happens with the blind and hardened. The LCMS-WELS-ELS neglected to calculate the effect of
- Attending seminars at Fuller Seminary
- Promoting idiots with degrees from Fuller, Trinity Divinity, or other hives of Enthusiasm
- Joint conferences with ELCA for all their leaders
- Trimming their sails to work in harmony with ELCA
- Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at board meetings with Lutheran World Relief
- The Michigan District WELS giving to the United Nations - prove it! - oh, never mind
- The Snowbird Conference - who told?
- The diversity project hatched at Snowbird
- The Church Membership Initiative - with the notebook in their own synodical libraries
- The ELCA-WELS-LCMS Joy "radio ministry" - who told?
- The Church Growth Conference featuring Martin Marty as speaker, once denounced in official publications by WELS
- More than a few have read Exposing the ELCA.
Nobody reads this blog, but 1500 and 2500 views have been counted in recent days.
Here is the bitterest pill of all - just like chewable aspirin - everybody knows!
"Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died." (Leonard Cohen)
As Luther wrote, associating with apostates is like handling road tar, the hands blacken soon enough - and everybody knows.
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How far must someone travel for a liturgical service with real hymns, creeds, and a genuine sermon based on a Biblical text?
How long must the sect listen to lame explanations about the systematic failures of their leaders, made worse by pilfering the offering money?
When will the Church Growth leaders issue a written apology to their sects before they die? When will they refund all the money they received for their synodical scholarships to Fuller, Trinity Divinity, Willow Creek, and Garden Grove Community Church?
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| No one needed to ask - "Who got in the sprinkles?" |
