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| ELDONA joined in fellowship with the Rolf Preus Objective Justification sect. |
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| Here is a tip from Almy - "Do not let your belly button protrude through the robe. The pulpit leads the world - not the belly." |
The electric car and truck fad reminds me of another misfit. The EVs, as they call them, are not very useful when stuck in a snow storm. Even worse, they can burst into flames in a flood. The batteries, if they can be found, cost from $15,000 to $20,000.
When the Lutheran Church in America caught the bishop buzz, the newly anointed bishops bought their duds and posed for pictures. They showed up in The Lutheran magazine looking unusually uncomfortable. They had embarrassed smiles and awkward poses when trying to look as Episcopal as possible.
The ultimate misfits are the corporate congregations and denominations. They continue to assume that their jobs are to assume that Peter Drucker was right in his emphasis upon objectives and strategies. He aligned himself with Fuller Seminary and suddenly the LCA, WELS, and LCMS were having conferences that sounded like Drucker pep rallies.
In contrast, the Bible is based upon the efficacious Word, teaches this doctrine throughout, and exemplifies it by identifying Jesus as the Word, the Logos who executed the commands of God the Father. Roman Catholics make the infallible Holy Mother Church the foundation. Calvinists divorce the Holy Spirit from the Word, so they teach the Word is dead unless some clever clergy make it lively, germane, appealing, and reasonable - a big stretch when starting with "dead" as the main description.
Fortunately, for the Lutheran apostates, Rome offers gowns, frowns, and clowns to replace the efficacy of the Word and Sacraments. The Lutheran apostates, who have no faith in the Word, can glory in the smells, bells, and saints. I noticed as the LCA began to shrink, that saints days became all-important, liturgical garments more colorful and expensive, and the Apocrypha the most important part of the Bible, though it never made the grade in the first place.
Luther only matters when the neo-papists can cite some examples of his earlier days, but somehow never of his consistent teaching from the Scriptures.
The true Church is the creation of the Word, but the corporate cartels are nothing more than mockery, a slide from papal glory to circus entertainment.
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