LCMS Pentecostalism - Diving into Error, Prepping for Fuller Yuk! Seminary

 

Christina and I went to the ELCA seminary in St. Paul to verify this statement in Christianity Today. She also found a WELS quotation which had been denied - as WELS always does. She said, "Now I've got you (deceased) you fat little liar!"

The Church Growth Movement was preceded by Pentecostalism, and the LCMS pastors and laity were hotter than Georgia asphalt for it. I remember Scaer quoting a pastor who was bawling because he would lose 25% of his members if he dared criticize  the Pentecostals in his congregation.

A Missouri DP asked me about accepting a parish where they had a lot of Pentecostals. I quoted Luther, "They act as if they have swallowed the Holy Spirit, feathers and all." The DP laughed out loud but he was like so many others - in the LCA too - afraid to touch the golden egg.

The Pentecostal Pratfall

Behind the movement, the victims failed to grasp the Spirit always connected to the Word, the Word always connected to the Spirit. The older term Enthusiasm was often used as the foundational error of so many strange, new, exciting, money-grabbing efforts. They turned away from the efficacy of the Word to cuddle and promote error. 

The CFW Waltherites turned their cult into a death rattle based on the deity of the Perryville idolaters. The key was shifting the CFW papacy into the next generation - F. Pieper! If one dares to read through Pieper's dogmatics, it is clear that the work is an echo of Walther and Stephan, a blend of Calvinism and gross error.

Pentecostalism had its first blush (a tea term, believe it or not) in the LCA, ALC, WELS, and Missouri. The supposed pro-life Lutherans (LCMS, WELS, and smaller) ignored the contradictions of Donald McGavran and his ardent promotion of abortion in his float-down-from-heaven textbook.

The Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) slobbered over Church Growth, which WELS defined as CHURCH! Growth rather than Church GROWTH!

Fuller Seminary, Robert Schuller, Willow Creek, and many other failures proved to be the leverage destroying any semblance of the Means of Grace, replaced by entertainment and rank stupidity, either in or out of a given synod.

Can anyone keep back the gagging reaction to this blarney?