ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
One chalice was a personal gift to Bishop Stephan. This is the one Walther used at the congregation that his brother vacated (by death).
Things happened fast. Walther organized the mob against Stephan. Next came the Altenburg Debate. Then C.F.W. accepted the call extended by his late brother's congregation.
