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| Oh how quickly the LCMS follows the ELCA standards of expensive gowns! |
When I read about Matt the Fatt dealing with universities, I have to suppress a chuckle. After all, he only earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree to be ordained - maybe even a Master's Degree. He might have earned an STM, fairly simple, but that was only one notch up, not likely for someone always looking for advancement. Scholars are divided on this issue.
I wrote master's degree because that is what the seminaries adopted when everyone wanted to get a degree beefier than a B.Div. Many paid $50 to replace the bachelor's degree with a master's, an expensive switch.
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| Olson had a buddy write to Christian News (sic) doubting whether Larry ever went to Fuller Seminary. I read Olson's DMin essay (not really a thesis) in the Martin Luther Library. McGavran was pro-abortion in his famous book. |
But lo, the Lutheran DMin was promoted next - to make more money for their seminaries. Robert Preus boasted that the Ft. Wayne's DMin for Church Growth was much better than "others." Hint - It was said that Fuller had the largest number of Lutheran DMin students, certainly a source of pride for them and their addled students. Fuller built up their business by having all the denominations study foreign missions at first, then gathering the American executives for a much greater harvest of fools for the overflowing Fuller coffers.
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| Archbishop Liz Eaton is up for election in July, in Phoenix, enjoying the cooling zephyrs of summer. |
Nota bene. All the Lutheran executives (foreign and American) studied together at Pasadena - LCA/ALC then ELCA, LCMS, WELS, and a dash of ELS. Fuller and Thrivent also united the Lutherans because they had so much toxicity in common. I recall a notorious drunken WELS leader telling me about the ELCA executives he knew from the latest pan-Lutheran conference.
The gardens are coming alive now in Northwest Arkansas. There is enough sun and rain to see the contrast between dead roses and exuberant ones (like Enchanted Peace). Local weeds fill in all the spaces and soon the weed-whacker will diminish them to create new opportunities. One does not simply chop away at plants.
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The collapsing Lutherans are vanishing quickly because they have nothing Scriptural and promote everything commercial. Some mission pastors are selling "merch" to potential members, as if fad clothing replaces the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace.
