| Pastor Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 9705 Registered: 5-2001 |
Mr. Ames, you write: So maybe a more capable writer could better state this than myself, the truth is you cannot ask for trust because one leader is a thoroughly confessional Lutheran pastor.I agree! I don't think you should trust any synod. Synods aren't worthy of trust. Trust God and his holy word. When a man shows himself to be a faithful teacher of the word, you can trust him, but always provisionally. During the Battle for the Bible in the LCMS, Jack Preus took a stand and stayed with it. Many if not most of the faculty at CSL attacked him for his stand. Franzmann was a disappointment. He didn't want to offend his friends on the faculty and he didn't. Missouri must resist the spirit of unionism. W/ELS must resist the spirit of sectarianism. Pastor Rolf David Preus | ||
     Pastor Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 9706 Registered: 5-2001 |
I don't want to revisit the arguments we had some time back on Luther Quest about the W/ELS doctrine of church and ministry. I will only point out that the official teaching of the W/ELS asserts things as doctrine that cannot be substantiated by the written Word of God. This is sectarian. On the other hand, many within Missouri give lip service to our "renunciation of unionism and syncretism of every description," but remain unionists at heart. We don't trust synods. We trust the pure and wholesome teaching of God's word taught in the Bible and confessed in the Book of Concord. Pastor Rolf David Preus |
Do We Trust Rolf? or the Holy Word of God?
Romans 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
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.
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