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| "Lenski is not good on justification" means in WELS - Lenski teaches Justification by Faith, not Halle University's world absolution without faith - OJ. |
Sassy and I pass about 30 homes on our morning route, where I also serve as newspaper boy. Only two homes get the Sunday paper and only one gets the daily as well. The cost for the daily paper is $360 a year. Both subscribers are retired, but the paper is tossed on the edge of their driveway, where it cannot be seen or easily retrieved in bad weather.
I walk the paper to the door - no trouble. Early on, Sassy signaled me to do that, by looking at the paper, smiling, and looking toward the door.
The daily newspaper will no longer be printed (only web published) and the Sunday paper will be printed outside the county. Many people have said they will cancel the Sunday paper and never subscribe to the web version.
No one else has the temerity to toss goods somewhere in the lawn or driveway. Packages come to the door and the doorbell is wrung. (No, I spelled it right. The button does not yield its sound easily.)
The synods operate just like the local newspaper. They do as little as possible for as much money as possible. The Corona lock-down revealed that most local pastors did not have the energy to host a complete service with an original sermon online.
Luther and Lenski taught the same thing - the Church is built on the preached Word, not gimmicks and circus entertainment. Now that people are aware, from being at home, of so many worship opportunities, what will bring them after the Peace of Wuhan Treaty is signed?
That is just as true for the denominational colleges. Why should parents have to pay for athletic teams, substandard dorms, and fancy buildings when their children just finished the year online? One university switched 20,000 local students to online in a matter of so many days. That is because most of their students were already online.
By providing laziness and asking for money all the time, the Synodicals are riding their congregations downhill, enjoying little work for a lot of cash and benefits.
The LCMS-WELS-ELS pastors have:
- Neglected original sermons based on the text, unique to each man, not plagiarized from buddies or celebrity Enthusiasts.
- Failed to visit the sick and shut-in, a primary duty for pastors.
- Refused to teach beyond the denominational output of educational materials.
- Aimed at being popular rather than faithful.
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| Norma A. Boeckler - Church of the Augsburg Confession. |
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| Paul McCain - Concordia Publishing House, LCMS. |
