Matthias Loy - On Strutting Peacocks Like Jim Heiser, Matt the Fatt, Mirthless Mark. ELCA Stole a March on You All, But You Are Catching Up

 

Thought you might find this passage by Matthias Loy on Lutheran union strengthening and encouraging.  It's from volume 6 of his Magazine.  Have a good week everyone.  —Alec Satin

"This requires, first, the rejection of all claims to lordship in the Church by any creature, whether called pope or otherwise and on whatever plea asserted, and the recognition of Christ alone as Lord. As the Lutheran Reformation was characterized by unrelenting war against the papal Antichrist, it may be presumed that no adherent of popery would claim the Lutheran name, or desire to be included in a Lutheran union. But the popish principle has by no means lost all influence in Protestant minds, and even among those calling themselves Lutherans, it is possible to find papal power conceded to some sinful man, though the man of sin at Rome be renounced. When it is maintained, for instance, that the laity, being unlearned and incapable of judging doctrine, are bound to accept as articles of faith whatever the pastor of the congregation or the highest official in synod may think it proper to impose as such, a principle which has been the curse of Romanism is admitted, and must, although in the beginning the usurped divine authority may be used with discretion and by some even with scrupulous fidelity to the Scriptures, in the end work out the same disastrous results which it exhibits in Romanism."

Matt the Fatt's gown cost more than the plane ticket.
When in Rome, dress up!

Why be a bishop when you can be a Pope.
Ask Walther.

Why be a bishop when you can be The Pope.

Former ELDONUT Rydecki:

"But this understanding was solidified in the Episcopal Address and ensuing discussion that took place at the 2022 Synod. I am very disappointed to discover that it is, in fact, the prevailing understanding and expectation within the diocese that the bishop’s responsibility of “oversight” and “administration” “encompasses all that has been associated with this [episcopal] polity in the historic sense,” as stated in the Bishop’s Episcopal Address, including “obliging the parsons and deacons of their superintendency to conform in all things according to our ‘Church Order.’” 

No more belly button jokes, I promise. That does water down the solemnity of the masks, with two blues inside and two whites outside. Almy built a new wing, just for ELDONA finery. Did the foundation donor realize he was funding another outbreak of popery?