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| They deny the Chief Article - Justification by Faith - what makes them Lutheran? Or even Christian? |
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| Heiser is wearing his purple bishop shirt. Rolf seems fine with that. Preus was/is a constant Objective Justification advocate, as Heiser knew, and Bishop Jim is not bothered at all. |
Happy Campers came together at Camp Trinity, to celebrate their common bond. Calvinism. As one publication of Northwestern Publishing House (WELS) said, "The Calvinists are not crypto anymore." Thanks to Otten's business zig-zagging between Walter Maier and Walther, the path has been smoothed to complete apostasy.
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| St. John is the church and endowment WELS stole, after kicking it out years ago. More importantly, here is Wayne pontificating about "not being restricted" to doctrines (sic). There is only one doctrine. Note the item in question - Election - which Walther abused to turn his drones toward Geneva, to back up his Halle OJ. Cited is fellow dunce Harold Wicks. If someone else wrote it in WELS, it is the ruling norm, unless the man's name is Gausewitz. Who he? they all say now. |
The genius of Pietism is the blend of Lutheran identify and Calvinistic rejection of the Confessions. Even today, WELS struts about the Book of Concord outwardly but inwardly despises the Confessions and Luther.
Pietism concentrates on appearances. "Are you a WELS member? Good! Are you from Wisconsin? Even better?"
Long ago when WELS was not collapsing, they had the seminarians saying, "We will not sit down with Missouri until they are straight about the ministry!" That was said to me verbatim, with some venom, many times at Mordor. It was like pushing a button on a display at a DC museum, only the button was self-activating.
Both synods are equally OJ, equally anti-Luther, equally terrified of the judgment facing them as members and seminaries flee.
Wayne Mueller's Church Growth and Rolf Preus' OJ are the twin devils of this catastrophe. Both Boomers pranced around as experts while they were dipping the silver and gold of Biblical doctrine in toxic mercury - to make it better, clearer, more relevant and effective.
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| Read the Calvinists to yak people into WELS. That worked like a charm. When will the Boomers meet to apologize to everyone. |
