Thank Goodness the ELCA Has So Many Education Properties To Unload. Next in Line - Even More LCMS Properties

 

New Gettysburg library on horizon

• By Jim Hale Times Staff Writer
 
• Jun 19, 2023
 
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"A new public library in Gettysburg is years away, but a vision of the facility is beginning to coalesce.

The Adams County Library System (ACLS) and United Lutheran Seminary (ULS) this week announced a sale agreement for a nearly 4.5-acre site, where a new building will replace the current facility at Baltimore and High streets downtown."

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GJ - Your midnight reporter stays up to alert Lutherans about how many expensive properties the leaders have sold off to remain solvent. ELCA should have increased seminary enrollment and marriages after the 2009 vote against the Scriptures. The best selling bad beer in America, Bud Light, joined the same stampede and found itself orphaned by its own customers. 

The LCMS, under the leadership of Matt the Fatt, is selling off educational properties faster than Bed, Bath, and Beyond outlets. Yes - that overpriced store that we called Bed, Bath, and Beyond Our Budgets.

Meanwhile, WELS deliberately spooks their own congregations so they can sell off the choice properties when sold "for the good of Holy Mother Synod." The officials dab their tear-filled eyes and use the cash to make up enormous shortages piling up in the near future. WELS in Columbus, Ohio has gone from six congregations to three. Seifert kicked out Prince of Peace for doing what WELS was doing all over, especially at dimwit synodical level. Lamb of God staggered under the CN-loving Kovaciny era. German Village, in spite of its pastor being the gay GA Pope, has dwindled.

Bethany Lutheran College/Seminary has so few ELS members that they could merge with the CLC campus (donkey basketball) and still not notice an uptick in the student population.

CLC Donkey Basketball has been a disappointment, stated the deflated high school, college seminary president.

St. Ignatius Seminary was going to have a fancy building, but they had to downgrade due to the cost of mandatory papal costumes in all colors.

The Church of the Lutheran Confession continues to deny Justification by Faith, because the ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS share the same dogmatic foolishness and enrollment disasters.

Juneteenth

 

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Hebrews - Daily Verses - "Sit on My Right Hand, Until I Make Thine Enemies Thy Footstool."

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KJV Hebrews 1

8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Explanation

The Seminexers, Rationalists, Church Growthers, Trinity Divinity Divines, and future Roman Catholic priests all want to skip Hebrews 1 - the Son of God glorified in Heaven, sitting on the Right Hand of God.

When Christ ascended to Heaven, the End Times began, the Gospel was first preached by the Apostles and written down through the work of the Holy Spirit. This was so new that the New Testament included the names of these first Christians. Their persecutions and deaths spread the Gospel even faster.

The Bad Bible Boosters demand the human nature of Christ only, so they water down and remove the divine nature of the Savior and faith in Him. The End Times mean all this will be adjudicated with Christ sitting on His throne in glory. 

Hebrews is a wonderful compilation of the Old and New Testaments, a final word for those awaiting God's plan.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Parable of the Lost Sheep - Trinity 3 - "I Shall Even Run After Him, And Shall Become Like the Shepherd That Seeks the Lost Sheep."

 

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PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP.

1. The words of the Gospel are living and quickening, if we only comprehend them aright. But, in order that we may learn to understand this Gospel better, we will now place before us two classes of men, namely, public sinners and Pharisees, and will make Christ their judge. You have often heard that it is our duty, for love’s sake, to serve our neighbor in all things. If he is poor, we are to serve him with our goods; if he is in disgrace, we are to cover him with the mantle of our honor; if he is a sinner, we are to adorn him with our righteousness and piety. That is what Christ did for us. Philippians 2. He who was so exceedingly rich did, for our sake, empty himself and become poor. He served us with his goods, that we in our poverty might become rich. He was made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

2. Now, the outward works of love are very great, as when we place our goods in the service of another. But the greatest is this, that I surrender my own righteousness and make it serve for the sins of my neighbor. For, outwardly to render service and help by means of one’s goods is love only in its outward aspect; but to render help and service through one’s righteousness, that is something great and pertains to the inward man. This means that I must love the sinner and be his friend, must be hostile to his vices and earnestly rebuke them, yet that I must love him with all my heart so as to cover his sins with my righteousness. I am commanded to rebuke; but Christ tells me, in Matthew 18:15-18, how I am to do this: “If thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, then hast thou gained thy brother. But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established. And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church; and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican. Verily I say unto you, what things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

3. In short, such an enemy of my neighbor am I to be that I cannot let him suffer. So dearly must I love him that I shall even run after him, and shall become like the shepherd that seeks the lost sheep, like the woman that seeks the lost piece of silver. On this occasion, therefore, we shall speak concerning such great work of love as is shown when a pious man invests the sinner with his own righteousness, when a pious woman invests the most wanton harlot with her own honor.

4. This is something that neither the world nor reason will do. A work like this cannot be done by honorable and pious men who are actuated only by reason, by men who would prove their piety by turning up their nose at those who are sinners, as here the Pharisees do who murmur and grumble at public sinners.