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Sure, Matt the Fatt, and your new Catechism teaches Objective Justification.
Where is that in the Book of Concord, Luther, or the Bible? |
I linked here some information about Lutheran decline - on the ALPB.org online forum. I breezed through the explanations, because they suggested:
- Brand loyalty has declined.
- The LCMS is too exclusive.
- The ELCA is selectively diverse.
- The mini-sects - far larger than the ELDONUTs - did not reach critical mass with decent seminaries and congregational size. The LCMC and NALC left ELCA and became no larger than WELS, which hardly registers with anyone.
No one mentioned that - from ELCA on up, no one teaches faith in Christ (as a sect, a seminary, or among those bored of doctrine blokes).
Some clergy teach Justification by Faith, the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace, but they are relatively few and easily bypassed.
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| The joy of universal salvation is impossible to suppress among the synodocrats. |
Therefore, these empty-heads of ALPB (LCMS, ELCA, LCMC, NALC) represent almost all of American Lutherdom. Their perspective is marketing and sociology.
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| UOJ expert Tim Glende turned a thriving campus church into an Eastern Orthodox parish - and the Eastern Orthodox are very pleased. |
Do people flock to congregations teaching against faith? We have a sterling example, a lab created at great expense by the nincompoops of WELS and the experts of Fuller Seminary. Tim Glende, a graduate of Mordor - where he studied Greek! - did not like his church building, paid for, on a university campus. Although this was his first call, he was related to Brug and worked for Jeske, perfect training for the debacle ahead. He finally got his new building on the edge of town, with adequate room for the coffee bar, but he vamoosed before his Delilah was finished. He re-appeared in Appleton, Wisconsin, headquarters of Thrivent and the most alcoholic town in America. The call committee was diligent in its background research!
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| Glende's Roadrunner escape tactics created another thriving congregation in Illinois - Cornerstone Babtist. |
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| What Glende could not afford, Cornerstone added onto. |
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| Cornerstone grew when Glende ran away - two denominations got two bargain buildings. Whadda financial genius! |
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And a big thankyou to Glende, the WELS Board of Missions,
Mordor, and Mark Jeske for this blessing.
PS - Uncle Brug too. |
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| Irony alert. When a girl was baptized at Cornerstone, the cake bore this description - often called the Means of Grace chapter in Romans. |
Glende's WELS congregation in Illinois was closed, which was his desire. Babtists bought it and soon the congregation was expanding so fast they had to add to the building Glende abandoned during its construction.
Everything was the same, except Babtists teach faith in Christ while WELS - Brug included - teaches J
ustification without Faith, Salvation without Faith. Bonus - WELS lies about what it teaches, even though they excommunicate those who opposed UOJ.
Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
WELS-LCMS thought they would grow from people leaving ELCA in droves. Instead, people left ELCA and Missouri and WELS in droves.
What do these sects, large and small, have in common? They all teach Universal Objective Justification. They all work together. They all have their trotters in the Thrivent trough, never hesitating about the abortions promoted by their sugar-daddy.
Luke 18:8 King James Version (KJV)
8...Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
