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Bethany Lutheran Mission in the Philippines Need Welders To Finish the Structure

 I created this enormous neon sign - in Photofunia,
but I cannot Photoshop a roof, windows, and doors.

Our mission has its materials at the site, but they need welders to put together the structural elements for the roof, windows, and doors.

Here is Pastor Palangyos blog post about it.

They have some in the building fund but need another $1,800 to pay the workers.

It reminds me of Bethany in New Ulm. The carpenter had me drilling into a steel beam. That was like converting Mt. Everest to gravel. No chance. A welding shop came in and did the work in a few minutes.

We used a combination of skilled workers and volunteers. My spiritual gifts were sweeping up debris and bringing in supplies.

This is a double medical day, so I will write more later.

This is how to send money directly to their non-profit account.

Lutheran Layman Responds to LutherQuest

Latest response from “Lutheran Layman”. Edit, post or not as you think best.

Hope you and Chris have a good day today.

The A Team

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Thanks for posting the earlier question, “Is Justification by Faith wrong?”, and the answers from LutherQuest. For whatever combination of reasons, there seems to be a repeated accusation/false belief that Book of Concord/Confessional Lutherans who are not convinced of Objective Justification somehow consider their faith a work. Alan Lubeck implies this when he writes:

These justification by Christ crucified deniers deny one truth to pervert another truth. Salvation/justification is by Christ alone, By faith alone, by Scripture alone. Enough with trying to separate our justification from the atonement of Christ already.

Can anyone point to anything in the Book of Concord which states that faith is a work? Can anyone point to anything any BOC confessing Lutheran has ever said which implies that faith is a work? Nobody believes this.

So going back to Alan Lubeck’s statement, we all agree our justification can never be separated from the atonement. However, do we all agree that justification is not the same as the atonement? If we do not agree, then we can go back to our Book of Concord and find out which position is correct. They cannot both be right.

The implication of making the atonement equal with justification results in one of two errors. (Lito Cruz) The Calvinist makes the Atonement equal Justification, and so must limit the Atonement to explain why only some are saved. This is the false teaching of Limited Atonement. The Universalist says that when one is atoned for, they are automatically justified, and so all are saved.

What is the value of faith in either position?

Since we would all agree that faith is a major aspect of the Gospel and all through the Scriptures, there must be a big problem with the idea that the atonement and justification are the same.

This seems like it might be the heart of the difference. Maybe the Luther Quest crew will choose to speak to this.