WELS DiPs - They Are Smokin'

Daryl Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Graphic Explains the the Wisdom of UOJ":

One of my favorite TV shows as a kid was "CHiPs", about Jon and Ponch, a pair of California Highway Patrolmen cruising the freeways of SoCal on their KZ1000 police cruisers, helping out stranded motorists and catching the bad guys. Despite the disco-themed music, the opening credit sequence is still one of the coolest I've seen, with the tight shots of the hand on the throttle, the foot on the shift lever, the badge, the holstered gun, and the C, H, and P coming off the emblem on the gas tank to spell out the show's title.

Along these lines, the WELS has produced a new video series called "DiPs", about a pair of district presidents running around the synod, putting out all the doctrinal fires and burning all the JBFA heretics at the stake. It'll help to fill that awkward ten minutes of dead time on those Sundays when the "WELS Connection" isn't shown.

Has any Church and Changer been disciplined for anything?

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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Exegetes Unite - Abraham Is the Common Theme in Ju...":

Ichabod -

In reference to one of your multiple pics - the one where Luther comments on Galatians 2:15-16 towards the beginning of this posting:

I recall not too long ago sitting in a Christmas Eve children's service (in my own WELS church) and listening to the WELS pastor's address. In essence, it was thematic of universal objective justification. He only talked how Christ was God's gift "to us." His only “message card” was Christ and the forgiveness He came to offer. The pastor apparently left all the other Scripture “cards” in his closed Bible.

I find that this type of irresponsible preaching is missing wonderful opportunities. Mixed Christian and non-Christian crowds such as a children's service which brings non-church heathen family members into the church sanctuary, are the same occasions which present their presence at funerals. Not preaching the whole counsel of God with sin and all its offensive severity and damning consequences to these mixed audiences, is not preaching the [whole] Gospel at all! If Christ saves to the uttermost [and, He does]; He saves from hell and damnation. Hence, Lutheran parish preachers should never shun the preaching to sinners: "Repent of your sins and believe the Gospel"

But, sadly and pathetically, so - Christian preachers will refuse to do that. Why? Because they have cast the Holy Spirit aside and think that they know better. Hence, they attempt to provide for the sinners in their congregation mix, a cheap Gospel. That cheap Gospel is readily found in universal objective justification, such as the "Christian" denomination of the WELS. Such a cheap gospel is the lazy preachers' "Gospel."

"Cheap Grace is a Worthless Substitute for a Faith That Saves:"

http://www.thechristianmessage.org/2012/06/cheap-grace-is-worthless-substitute-for.html

Nathan M. Bickel - pastor emeritus
Bay city, Michigan - WELS Bethel Lutheran member

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org

Rolf Preus Ex Cathedra Trashes Sainted Pastor Vernon Harley

"Justification by faith?
Anathema sit! Anathema sit! Anathema sit!"

Rolf Preus: 

Please take to heart the fact that the pastors you have been listening to have broken with their brothers and stand alone in rejecting this biblical truth. For example, when Vernon Harley went off the deep end on this he persuaded not one of his brothers in the ministry to follow him. It was a very sad spectacle, Mr. Krohn, to see such a respected and beloved minister of the word soil himself and his reputation with false doctrine during what should have been his golden years. "Pride goes before the fall." It is plain old fashioned arrogance that drives men to reject this precious truth, as if they're right and all their brothers are wrong! Don't follow these men, Mr. Krohn. Remember Jesus' warning about the scribes and Pharisees!

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GJ - Pope Rolf has been taking charm lessons from Pope Paul the Unlearned. Both are infallible when they trash people ex cathedra. There is nothing wrong with identifying areas of disagreement, even when wrong, as Rolf and Paul often are. Their unholy zeal in personal attacks is a testimony to what UOJ has done for their personalities.

I see no evidence offered for Rolf's accusations against Pastor Harley.

No one agreed with Harley? Then why was he never charged? He did not leave Missouri, get kicked out of the Little Sect on the Prairie, or beg to get back into the LCMS - three notable events in Rolf's life.

One LCMS pastor said that at least 500 of his fellow pastors write as if UOJ never existed. I imagine they all agree with Harley.

Besides that, Concordia Publishing House is currently selling a KJV catechism with no UOJ in it.

Pope Paul the Unlearned is so busy trying to get me banished and silenced all over the Net. Why does he fail to censor the KJV catechism he sells?

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Rolf Preus Ex Cathedra Trashes Sainted Pastor Vern...":

Rolf Preus, "It is plain old fashioned arrogance that drives men to reject this precious truth, as if they're right and all their brothers are wrong."

Interesting that Pr. Preus would make an appeal to majority rule when his opposition to the Antichrist-ian dictatorial proclaimations of ELS President Moldstad was largely made alone and was certainly the singular dissenting voice during their convention.

The charge of arrogance is self indicting.

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Gausewitz was president of the Synodical Conference (tm), but managed to produce an enormously popular catechism that was used for decades in WELS and Missouri.

The issue is not whether something is a minority view, but Rolf is dead wrong on that point, too.

Confessedly, UOJ did not appear until the Age of Pietism, never became accepted dogma anywhere--including WELS--and faces considerable opposition today.

The best argument for UOJ dominance is its omnipresent teaching in apostate, mainline denominations and the Church of Rome. Everyone is forgiven, so let us all unite in our common confession of unfaith.

The mainline denominations and Rome outnumber the faithful in all denominations, so Rolf may have a point after all - but it is not the one he wants to make.