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Ichabod -
Today I
received an email from my Bay County, Michigan pastor, Mark Luetzow. This email
was sent Bcc - so, I assume [think] that it was also sent to our congregation's
total membership - at least those who have their email addresses on the church
directory here at Bethel Lutheran.
In this short
6:05 minute message, out of state and Thrivent Board member, WELS Pastor Mark
Jeske, of St. Marcus Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, stated the following,
regarding the recent Aurora, Colorado shooting massacre:
"......and this is a
solid reminder that there is no point in putting off our thinking of our
Savior, till another day; or that we're all guaranteed to have plenty of time
to take care of our spiritual responsibilities......
......through the forgiveness
of sins in Jesus, we become immortal.And, we will rise from the dead, just like
him."
Aforementioned taken from:
Mark Jeske's "Time of Grace"
- "Colorado theater shooting: reflection and prayer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTznBNZ3Mi0&feature=youtu.be
I wonder how
many other WELS pastors circulate Mark Jeske's "Time of Grace" utube
videos? This is the first time that I've seen and heard this "Time of
Grace." And, if many of them are like this, I would have to conclude that
Rev. Mark Jeske is one of those Christian pastors who regularly preach the
twisted teaching of "universal objective justification" as I've also
been hearing from our own church, here at Bethel Lutheran:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/07/pastor-nathan-bickel-on-uoj-in-wels.html
I find it sad
and pathetic that a Christian pastor - especially a Lutheran pastor would
preach his devotion to a mixed online audience and not differentiate between
Christian and non Christian; regenerate and unregenerate; believer and
unbeliever - and, in the context, not to preach repentance and faith
[justification by faith alone as Luther taught it]. It was if Rev. Jeske was
speaking to a Christian congregation when, in reality, he is speaking to a
mixed audience of Christians and the unregenerate. To speak of Christ, the
Savior as "'our Savior" to a mixed audience - some, or many of whom
are heathen, is neither proper or scripturally, wise. [God is not your Father,
unless you are one of His children].
Then, Rev.
Jeske makes the statement - "......through the forgiveness of sins in
Jesus, we become immortal. And, we will rise from the dead, just like
him." That is not Scriptural! It is
by God's grace, through faith [in Christ] that a person becomes one of God's
children and becomes a member of the Lord's heavenly throng. [Ephesians 2:8;9]
What is the
Gospel? How is it perverted?
http://www.thechristianmessage.org/2012/05/what-is-gospel-how-is-it-perverted.html
Finally, the
more I hear from WELS pastors, the more I hear a corrupted message - that
"universal objective justification" teaching which takes the
Scriptural place of grace through faith generated by God the Holy Spirit - that
"justification by faith alone" teaching as Luther taught it. It's as
if all, these universalism preachers can understand, is John 3:16 and not the
whole chapter in context.
Pastor
emeritus Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org