Steadfast Cowards:
The Brothers of John the Steadfast (BJS) started a few years ago with Klemet Preus on our blog roll and now we are pleased to add a fresh, new, young Preus to our Brother’s Cafe. Andrew Preus, nephew of Klemet, a student at St. Catherine’s Seminary (Ontario, Canada) and editor of the student newspaper. His first post will appear today and is appropriately centered on justification, the key doctrine of the faith. Included in his first post is some more biographical stuff.
The young Preus was brought to our attention by Jonathan Fisk of Worldview Everlasting. Fisk has also agreed to serve on the board of directors of BJS which is just one of many changes that will be coming to the brotherhood in the coming year.
Associate Editor Scheer has also been noodling some improvements for BJS. He has been recruiting some additional bloggers so that we can keep our content fresh, rich and coming to you at a brisk pace. In the next few months we will also be reviewing our membership, chapter, and other procedures so that we can better fulfill our goals.
The Brothers of John the Steadfast, brings together Lutheran laymen to defend and promote the orthodox Christian faith which is taught in the Lutheran Confessions, provide financial support for Christian new media (e.g. Issues, Etc.), and to support other endeavors selected by its membership that defend and promote the cause of confessional Lutheranism.
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GJ -
Currently, the original Andrew Preus maiden post starts here.
The "more" link has stopped working, so the complete post is not viewable. The teaser part indicates 416 comments.
Some might say, "But I can link from the comments sent to my email as follow-up." Here is that link, which does not work.
What happened? Various people, on their own, began responding to the absurd claims of forgiveness without faith (UOJ), which Andrew Preus introduced and defended. The UOJ Stormtroopers began chiming in: Jack Kilcrease (Roman Catholic adjunct), Jay Webber, Jim Pierce, Paul McCain. Several UOJ Enthusiasts quit several times. I made a few comments, quoted Robert Preus, and linked Luther versus the UOJ Pietists. One of my comments was blocked, so I quit posting.
Dr. Lito Cruz and Brett Meyer showed unusual stamina in answering all objections to the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace. They were the only regulars from Ichabod, a fact which probably unnerved the UOJ crowd. There are many more opponents to UOJ than they feared, more than I hoped.
The last comment came from a Rev. James Schulz, who wrote:
".. the culture of WELS is not disposed to free and open discussion when it comes to clarifying the formulation of Objective/Subjective Justification terminology. "Heresy" and "heretic" come out pretty quickly even when Buchholz' paper is suggested as a starting point of discussion. And as Mr. Standley and I can both attest, Becker's essays are still being used as a primary source in WELS worker training schools for the definition of Objective/Subjective Justification.
That must have been a co-inky-dink, to have the discussion killed at that point. Maybe the servers were overheating. But now the entire discussion is hidden. And Steadfast Lutherans think they are the solution...to what? Dictatorial Holy Mother Synod worship?
I consider hiding the discussion to be a disorganized retreat from the topic they introduced and defended with ardor. Now they are licking their wounds at LaughQuest. Who? Andrew Preus, who began the post. Rolf Preus, his father. Jim Pierce, the UOJ loyalist.
As before, the personal attacks, guilt by association, and logical fallacies were used by the UOJ tribe to obscure their weak, contradictory, and anti-Christian argumentation.
Gorillas scream and beat their chests when they are afraid. False teachers try flattery at first, then bullying, threats, and insults.
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