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I have to accept that LutherQuest has some interesting posts, in spite of their 100% Universalism. For instance, Steve Schmidt posted this YouTube link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NwPriqNNNm0 about demographics - my favorite dead-end delicacy. I consider it cocaine for faithless followers of the numbers. As the president of Northwestern Mutual told me, "It's all about the numbers."
The ALPB Ovaltines also get stuck on the numbers, so that is a good place to find how things are going in ELCA, the Church of Rome, and their joint activities.
Today, LQ once again chanted the chorus about running out of Germans, a frequent song from Mark Jeske's pan-Lutheran wisdom. Enough of that at a time makes me laugh at their meticulous aversion to the truth.
Statistics, good or bad, are not efficacious.
Their gloriously overbuilt churches, large schools, and deluxe offices are not efficacious.
The true leaders of the past (excluding Walther, the pimp Calvinist) are never mentioned, because they are too ignorant to dwell on Biblical teachers of the past - especially the Reformation triumvirate (Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz) and American greats (Loy, Jacobs, Schmauk). Their teaching is completely against efficacy.
The concept of efficacy in the Bible begins with Creation, Genesis 1:1. That is another way of saying that the Holy Spirit is never without the Word, and the Word is never without the Spirit. That includes the invisible Word of preaching and teaching, the visible Word of the Sacraments.
Nothing they are yapping about in The Big Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - is healthy or life-giving. If they trusted in the Gospel instead of Objective Faithless Justification, they would be doing well and enjoying the blessings of Biblical efficacy.
If they had something to say, which they don't, they could use Zoom and blogs to get the Word of God out.
WELS and LCMS love to ape their elderly Church Growth leaders, by starting up such congregations as Illumine, The Way, The CORE, Pathfinder, and other gimmicks that scream terminal silliness. One key litmus test - merch church sales. They let go of the name "Lutheran" fast, to make room for their atheism, their embarrassment about the faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Savior and Good Shepherd.
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