No Gospel fruits will come from a lack of the Gospel, or more precisely, a lack of faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God and Savior.
Claiming "the Gospel" when a non-Gospel is promoted will never produce Gospel fruits. For example, teaching world absolution is not the Gospel of Christ. "Accepting" world absolution, one of those thundering heresies promoted by Walther, is really the death of the Gospel, for three reasons.
- Faith is not a decision.
- World absolution is not taught by the Bible or any Christian.
- Pitting faith against grace shows colossal ignorance of both - Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
The promotion of -
- Objective Justification, aka
- Universal Objective Justification, aka
- General Justification, aka
- Justification of the Sinner (E. Preuss), aka
- Justification of the World (Sparky Brenner) -
is destruction of faith in Jesus, the efficacy of the Word, and the Means of Grace.
The cutest gimmicks, the slickest programs, and the coolest praise bands will never make up for the destructive and malignant leadership of WELS-ELS-LCMS-ELCA, especially because these synods have become the product of Fuller Seminary's anti-faith.
ELCA, LCMS, WELS, ELS, and the CLC (sic) are withering up from the lack of faith in Christ being taught, from the lack of grace - which has been sold in exchange for Calvinist entertainment. The leaders are nasty and dictatorial, like their Roman counterparts. Their seminarians are confused, misled, but adamant in the Wokeness.
