Note How Identical Are the ELCA-WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC-Sects!

 

There are solid reasons why the Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) are material rather than spiritual.

The numbers ooze from their own spreadsheets.

Remember when ELCA was officially merging on January 1, 1988 with 5.2 million members? Lyle Schaller, the all-purpose synodcal expert, said, "Twenty percent of ELCA will flow into LCMS-WELS etc." 

Ha! I knew from experience how snooty and self-centered Missouri and WELS leaders were, how family-tree-centered the Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie was.

Oh! how they lusted after bigger and better buildings! Third-rate insurance and mobile ice cream treats made it happen and silenced any qualms they had.

Spiritual - Not Material. 

Means of Grace Rather Than Disgrace

The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation was DOA because few had any use for Luther, Biblical Teachers, Prayers, the Liturgy or Hymns.

"What to Know: 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly The 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly will take place July 28–August 2 in Phoenix, Arizona. This triennial gathering is the ELCA’s highest legislative body, bringing together voting members from across the country to worship, reflect theologically, and make decisions about the future of our church. Here are some key highlights for our synod to know:  Leadership Transitions This year’s assembly includes the election of a new Presiding Bishop and Secretary of the ELCA. Bishop Elizabeth Eaton and Secretary Deacon Sue Rothmeyer will retire at the end of their current terms."

ELCA has become the lust of the mainlines, eager to copy the Unitarians, Episcopalians, and United Church of Christ. Let's not overlook the ELCA Sparkle Creed, borrowed from a lady minister who was eased out of one denomination and accepted into another.

Luther's Ascension Day Sermon Obliterates Objective Faithless Justification

 

Luther's Ascension Sermon. What a bitter day for the hopeless hapless salesmen of Objective Faithless Justification!

The Waltherian Four - LCMS, WELS, ELS, CLC (sic) - got away with their circus act for almost 200 years. When Bishop Martin Stephan stepped off the ship in New Orleans and CFW followed behind him - as the future pope  declare - "all Creation is again under the bright rays of mercy, as in the beginning; yea, in Christ we were justified before we were even born."

This nonsense really began at Halle University through Knapp and others, but it spread - like Bishop Stephan's syphilis - in America.

The poor, pathetic popes of the Waltherian Four continue to use Knapp and Preuss to inspire their equally confused members. When Matt Harrison raised his sanctified and sanctifying chubby hands to bless the 40th anniversary of the Purple Palace, he uttered his favorite snip and clip OJ passage from Romans 4, to wit -

NIV Romans 4: 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

And all God's people said, "What? Your Serene Highness - Why not honestly recite the verses?!"

KJV Romans 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

The Waltherian Four leadership is incompetent and yet they strive to keep their boats from sinking even faster, adding masking tape here and there. Let us close with a quotation from the back cover of Herman Otten's book about Dr. Walther Maier (PhD Harvard).

Hermon Otten fiddled while Missouri burned, but at least he quoted Walter Maier on the Chief Article of the Christian Faith - Justification by Faith.