A Great Honor!

 Also called the Snap, Crackle, and Pop Gym Award

How Did the American Lutherans Depart from the Book of Concord?Walther Led the Apostasy and the ALC/LCA Followed in His Hoofprints

 

The editor frowns on tobacco products, but this Luther caricature is just too humorous.

Lutherans came to America through various European sources of Pietism. The Pietists were not all alike, but they were influenced by the fact of Pietistic societies and schools (like Halle) emphasizing good works and getting along (like Spener).

By Civil War times, the General Council came out of the General Synod. The original seminary was in Gettysburg (General Synod) and those who favored Lutheran teaching (General Council) formed their seminary in Philadelphia (Mt. Airy).

Pietism is fertile ground for everyone getting along together, ignoring differences, and leaning on rationalism. Mergers created the American Lutheran Church, The American Lutheran Church, the ULCA, the LCA, etc.

The Synodical Conference (LCMS, WELS, ELS) began with Pietism, though their history scribblers do a ferocious amount of lying about it. CFW Walther B.A. made himself the dogmatic dictator of the Pietists who came to America, led by Bishop Martin Stephan who was arrested in Germany for adultery and mismanagement of funds, a true Church Growth founder.

The Seminex liars came back the same day. The Preus brothers taught the same OJ as the Tietjen fans. This was the first split in history where both sides were consummate liars.

Walther and Company were radical Pietists, not unlike the Wheat Flour Messiah, and they both taught the Objective Faithless Justification of Halle University. Walther made sure that F. Pieper (Wisconsin Synod) followed him and his OJ, his seminary presidency, and his synod leadership. The natural affinity of Germans to follow Dr. Luther rather than Walther, B.A., kept back OJ - though no one cares to admit it today. The LCMS printed and still prints Justification by Faith catechisms and other sources from the Book of Concord.

A cast of hundreds, a wasted forest of innocent trees, an anchor for all the unread books above the pastor's desk.

Listen up, LCMS groupies. Missouri stopped being Biblical long ago and now publishes Seminex dreck almost exclusively. Try to read the giant "Small" Catechism, the toxic Dogma-tanic, or the bloated doubled-down Mark commentary. Seminex insiders took over Concordia Publishing House to print their rationalistic propaganda while making a few bucks on the side.

The Efficacy of God's Word? "Never Heard of It. We Promote Happy Campers."

 

"Thrilled and excited about the next year!"

The newly hired Professors of Church Growth get furrowed brows when they are asked to teach the Church History 101 course. "But, but, but," they say, "We only know the part after Understanding Church Growth was published. Those were glorious wonder years, when the classrooms erupted with Oh! Oh! Oh! I just discovered another Church Growth Principle!"

"All of us bathed in the serenity of Pasadena, whether priests, bishops, or Salvation Army members, or ELCA, or LCMS, or WELS, or stealth ELS."

 

 I photoshopped the Episcopal leaders, above, anticipating the future WELS advocacy.

WELS hazing helps students conform and fit in with the "names" who run the show.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 18 - "Do you want to do something pleasing to God, then do it out of genuine love."

 

Complete Sermon - Trinity 18 - The Two Greatest Commandments - Christ Is David's Son And David's Lord

17. Do you want to do something pleasing to God, then do it out of genuine love. That the Jews practiced circumcision, fasted much, prayed much, and performed other like services, was not pleasing to God, for it did not come from the heart, as this commandment requires: Thou shalt love God with all thy heart. Thus it will be also with you, even though you should belong to the Carthusian friars, or to a still more exacting order; all would avail nothing, if you had not the love of God. From this you are to conclude, all works are nothing, that do not originate in love, or are against love. No commandments should be in force, except those in which the law of love can be exercised.

18. From this it now appears what a misleading calling that of the monks and priests is, in that they wish to merit heaven through their works alone, and they also bind the people to do good works, in order that they may thereby merit heaven, which is a cursed and godless service. Hence, as already stated, the law is to be only an exercise to prove our love; otherwise, aside from love, God never inquires about works, no matter how excellent they are.

19. You can now see how many people know what the law means: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself.

Surely they are few who know it, and fewer still who keep it. How can they keep that which they do not know? We are blind and our nature is totally blind, and so is also human reason. It knows nothing so imperfectly as that which the law of God requires.

20. Now here Christ shows the Pharisees and the Scribes a twofold kindness. In the first place, he dispels their blindness and teaches them what the law is. In the second place, he teaches them how impossible it is for them to keep the law. Their blindness he dispels, in that he teaches them what the law is, namely: that love is the law. Human reason cannot comprehend this nowadays any more than the Jews did then, for if it had been possible for human reason to comprehend it, the Pharisees and Scribes, who at that time were the best and wisest of the people, could have understood it; but they thought it consisted alone in performing the external works of the law; in giving to God, whether it be done willingly or unwillingly; but their inward blindness, their covetousness, and their hardened heart they could not see, and thought they thoroughly understood the law and were fine fellows, holy and pious people; but they stood in their own light. For no one is able to keep the law unless his nature is thoroughly renewed.