Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Best and Saddest Luther Quotation for Our Age of Apostasy

Building and correcting - Satan's most powerful form of destruction.


Some posts are immediately difficult to write. Reviewing the book by David Virtue - The Seduction of the Episcopal Church - reminded me of Luther anticipating ecclesiastical destruction of the Church.

Leaders within the Lutheran Reformation did their best to wreck it. That is often discussed, but only from the historical perspective. The second section deserves our attention, because it has been ignored for decades.

Satan opposes the Gospel the usual ways (the left hand) with atheist groups, entire branches devoted to denying Biblical truths (Unitarians, Universalists, quasi-Christian cults like the Adventists and Jehovah Witnesses).

 Luther Days - sponsored by WELS


The worst opposition comes from the right hand - building and correcting. "Do not be alarmed and resist us, because we only want to help. We want to grow your church body. Our methods are neutral. They have worked with the Salvation Army and the Pietists. Roman Catholic bishops study our vast database and take our classes. (Fill in the denomination's name) - You have the best chance of all to double and triple your numbers."

Everyone should pause to wonder why all the Protestant sects are hardening and shrinking like raisins in the sun. Every downward lurch led to more millions spent to promote the cause that sent them to their doom - Church Growth. Does Wayne Mueller regret his denial of Church Growth promotions and expenditures in WELS? Fuller trained, he was replaced as First Vice President by James Huebner, also trained at Fuller Seminary. Such improvements came from

  1. SP Oscar Naumann, who endorsed Church Growth in TELL;
  2. SP Carl Mischke, who expanded Church Growth growthingly;
  3. SP Karl Gurgel, who gained a Schwan fortune and lost a synod;
  4. SP Mark Schroeder, who came in as a Reformer and will leave as Reformed. He has done everything short of canonizing Mark Jeske and renaming the sect the JELS - Jeske Evanjellyfish Legalistic Syndicate.