The LCMS and WELS Are Abusive Cults

 

WELS is no different from ELCA. In fact, the WELS/LCMS guy who helped start a gay seminary was way ahead of the future ELCA.

The haughty treatment of Luther's Large Catechism proved once again that the LCMS mocks the Reformation and the Book of Concord. WELS says "Me too! Me too!"

Pastor Martin Stephan did not mount a glorious escape from persecution to start a new church in America. He was under house arrest for his dalliances with young women and already had a hot dose of syphilis. He shunned his wife to stay at a spa with his mistress, and took his mistress with him to sail to America with his cult.

The Walter circle of pastors and teachers was 100% Pietist, like Stephan, not Lutheran, not repristinating anything but lying all the time. Walther even kidnapped his own niece and nephew from his parental home, clearly a felony anywhere.

Stephan insisted on being made a bishop before he stepped foot on dry land, his promotion endorsed in writing by CFW and others. However, his syphilitic brain was getting worse and Walther saw a great opportunity to take over. CFW arranged a riot in Perryville, robbed Stephan of everything, called him a thief, and forced him over to Illinois at gunpoint - more felonies. Stephan's main mistress crossed over to live with him. She was quartered next to him on the trip over.

Walther consolidated his power and insisted on his way at all times. That is how he broke the rules to make F. Pieper the dogma professor. Pieper cleverly wrapped efficacy and the Means of Grace around the rotten core of Objective Faithless Justification. Walther was no innocent. Stephan sent him a letter about OJ, which Walther claimed "saved his life."

All those who worship Walther agree that he never wavered from his adherence to the Halle dogma of his syphilitic bishop.

Walther deliberately blew up the Olde Synodical Conference, to eliminate those who opposed his idiotic, ignorant Objective Faithless Justification. When he was done with his "grace" campaign, only WELS and the ELS were left. CFW was weak in the Biblical languages and could not make a case by dealing with Justification by Faith - just like WELS-ELS-CLC-ELCA today.  Walther made it a predestination puzzle where grace could not be grace if faith was involved, yet Romans 4 makes it very clear that justification can only be by faith, or it was not grace. Walther worshipers do not see that, so they always blow smoke on the Biblical topic and run with their bookshelves of cult textbooks.

Sadly, WELS and the ELS stuck with the Walther gang of criminals (theft, kidnapping, refusing to follow the Scriptures with Stephan). They inherited have rested their Pietistic legalism on the grandeur of the Great Walther, a sure sign of a cult.

Following Walther, the other cults agree that they are never wrong, no matter how evil the crime is. Marvin Schwan - nothing happened. WELS murders - nothing happened. ELS - they are perfect too. 

The three Stephan sects carry on their model of leadership - Martin Stephan. They deny their dogmatic bedrock is legalistic, hedonistic Pietism. Anyone who says they are less than perfect is shunned, excommunicated and decorated with every kind of insult anyone can imagine.

WELS denies its hazing of students, which is designed to make them "all the same." If someone knows how the hazing works, the individual gets a double dose. They even changed the name of GA to HB so they could deny the GA hazing. So-o-o clever. WELS leaders always double-talk and their members go with the game plan, because the whole extended family will shun the person who questions Holy Mother WELS.

Missouri has watered down the worst of the abusive behavior, but Matt the Fatt's behavior in running for re-election was same old pile of bullying deception. He endorsed Luther's Large Catechism (ELCA-Seminex Edition) then blocked it for several days (oh the torture of waiting) then steamrolled objections to the book as akin to the KKK and Alt-Right. Even with all that virtue signaling to the Left, Matt only got 52% of the vote. Conclusion? His charade was a way to make sure he had the votes.

Hebrews - Daily Verses - "For the Word of God Is Quick, And Powerful, And Sharper Than Any Twoedged Sword..."

 

 

KJV Hebrews 4

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Explanation

Verse 12 shows that the Word of God is always effective (or efficacious). That alone repudiates the claims of the Word and the Holy Spirit going their separate ways, making the Word "dead" at times and the Spirit fickle. The reason for many saying "Sovereign Lord" is to say God may be present or not during a sermon, a baptism or the Lord's Supper.

Verse 13 teaches that the Word is 100% discerning, which may be why so many shun the Word out of guilt or scorn, giving up the peace and joy from forgiveness through faith in the Savior.

Verse 14 portrays Jesus Christ as our great high priest, reason enough to avoid calling pastors "Father" and instituting a priesthood lacking in the New Testament but dominant in the minds of quasi-Romanists.

Verse 15 emphasizes the Two Natures of the Son of God, His human nature having experienced the trials, suffering, and pain of our human condition. The key point is Christ tempted just as we are, yet without sin - His divine nature. As the Word made flesh, He is the face and voice of God.

Verse 16 reveals that the Promised Messiah helps us come to the Lamb of God, slain for our sins, and receive grace through faith alone, and mercy.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - "Such Favors He Also Bestows upon the Godless And Unbelieving, And upon Them More Than upon Others."

 

Complete Sermon Here -> FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.

SECOND SERMON: LUKE 5:1-11. 

5. By this example he especially shows how it goes with those upon whom he is to bestow his gifts and assistance, and how he is accustomed to bestow these favors. It goes with them as it went with those fishermen, who labored all the night, yet had nothing for all their trouble and labor, and had nothing to hope for from human counsel or aid. Manifold tribulations, miseries and distress are the daily experience of all Christendom. If Christ is to help, there must be trials, trouble and toil, and it must come to this, that we despair of all human counsel, comfort and ability. Then he comes with his help, and shows that he still has the means of comfort, counsel, protection and deliverance, and that he is able to bestow all this when everything else has failed us, and when all that we have done or suffered, and still may be able to do, is nothing and in vain; yea, that in such need and weakness he gives and helps in richer measure than could be done by all human power, skill and aid.

6. On the other hand, by saying to his disciples: “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught,” Christ shows that he does not forbid work, or would have that neglected which we have been commanded to do. He thereby enjoins upon them to continue in their handicraft. The two things are thus well maintained over against each other, namely, that we must work, and that our work accomplishes nothing. For if toil and trouble could have accomplished anything, then would the disciples have accomplished it during the hours of the night; and all the more so then, as they had hopes of taking a greater number of fishes while the silence and darkness continued than when Christ, in broad daylight, commanded them to let down their nets. Nevertheless, at Christ’s word, and at one draught, they drew them in full to overflowing.

7. From this every one may see and learn that no man lives by his labor or exertion, however great and unhampered this may be, but must live by God’s blessing and grace. Let it remain at this, as the Germans say, that “God helps,” or “God bestows his gifts over night,” which saying has come down to us from pious men of old who realized its truth in their experience. Daily experience still shows that many a one toils, tooth and nail, in anxiety and hard work, who yet can scarcely earn his bread or get rid of his debts and poverty; whilst to another, who takes it easy and newer overexerts himself, everything comes and flows in so abundantly that we really must say: “All this comes from God’s help and not from any man’s labor.” In Psalm 127:2 we are told: “So he giveth it unto his beloved in sleep,” as if the Psalmist would say: “It is in vain that you fret and plague yourself with cares and labor, day and night, in order to provide what is needed in the home. Much may be needed there; but it does not depend upon your hands and labor at all. Nothing will come of your effort unless God himself is the “House Father” and makes it possible for you to say: ‘God bestows his gifts over night. ’ Grain and all food from the earth, yea, all that a man has, or may acquire, must be given him of God.”

8. Such favors he also bestows upon the godless and unbelieving, and upon them more than upon others. With temporal goods he fills to overflowing the house and home of many wicked men who never think of a God.