More from Loy

Brethren, has not the thought sometimes entered your own hearts that you could do something to render yourselves acceptable to God? Have you not now and then given ear to the suggestion that, after all, a man must acquire some righteousness of his own before he can be accounted righteous in the court of heaven? Has not occasionally the idea entered your mind and been entertained, that the holiness in which you purpose to live in the future will make some amends for the sins committed in the past, and that God will cancel the accumulated guilt in consideration of the acquired merit? The self-righteous thought and feeling finds such easy access to our souls, that if we are not constantly on our guard it will take possession and banish all claims of grace.



From. Loy, Matthias. Sermons on the Gospels for the Sundays and Chief Festivals of the Church Year. Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern, 1888.  From the 4th Sunday after Advent.  This rare book from the beloved teacher and professor was a generous gift from a reader.  It is being scanned and cleaned up, and will be released as an ebook by [LutheranLibrary.org](https://www.lutheranlibrary.org/authors/loy-
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No - The Boa Constrictor Does Not Squeeze Things To Death - They Just Keep the Victims from Inhaling Fresh Air. The Left Does the Same

The big myth about boa constrictor snakes is their habit of squeezing people to death - the fatal hug. But their habit seems to be more of letting the victim exhale and constricting down to that point. Scholars are divided, but that seems to be the reason why animals and humans succumb - no new oxygen, no more inhaling, nothing left to exhale.

The Left-wing Lutherans (ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC sic) do the same thing, and they are very good at it.

1. The Bible - The KJV and its modernized versions are no longer mentioned in a list of translations. No one is going to debate forgotten topics. Bringing up the KJV is like mentioning the murders or lawsuits in those synods.
2. Women's ordination - There is likewise no debate, just a steady progression toward the inevitable. Long ago, Brug claimed - without Biblical support - that there was nothing wrong with women's ordination. WELS was not ready for it...yet. WELS dubbed the feministized Martin Luther College their "College of Ministry," so all graduates are already ministers. Larry Oh!'s Staph Ministry further infected the synod. In addition, WELS and LCMS gladly worked under the stuporvision of ELCA women pastors in the Church Membership Initiative. Other follies have greased the slippery slope of the apostate sects. (Some slopes are indeed slippery.)
3. Church Growth was a gift from Schuller, McGavran, and the Pentecostals. All the worst of Calvinism was gathered into one giant agenda and dogma. The synods oozed Fuller Seminary but said (like Wayne Mueller) "There is no Church Growth in our synod" or like Missouri - "We have studied it."
4. Studies of anything in a synod is proof they have already embalmed it, preserving it like a mummy - the new ruling norm.
5. Breaking new ground and making that normative. Mark and Avoid Jeske's 

• Church and Change, plus 
• Time of Grace, plus 
• Change or Die! have been fertile piles of organic matter for his diabolical plans. 

Parachurch groups - like People of Grace - are so handy for getting things done without asking permission.

 The blind leading the blind - this is how helpful idiots like Jeske fix their synods until they are beyond repair.

The Colossus Corrodes

 Mark and Avoid has given the same "We ran out of Germans" speech for decades. Here is he inflicting brain damage on MLC students, held captive by their dungeon masters. The Mission Day speakers list is top secret in WELS - what are they ashamed of - the truth?

 This is an ELCA pastor whom Jeske promoted in his Change conferences.

 Church and Change, Change or Die - what does Jeske promote? Notice Parlow on the steerage committee? He has a D.Min. Call him doctor - he needs the affirmation. Kelm has one too - Dr. Kelm's D.Min. - so precious.

 Another Jeske cabal - but nobody objected, so the agenda was expanded into Sodom-by-the-Lake, Milwaukee's Marriott West.