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My light reading time in Lutherdom challenges the efficacy of the pour-over coffee I make: so much drivel, trivia, and illiteracy in Biblical doctrine. I stay awake on LQ, CN, and ALPB by searching for the best graphic to use.
When Christian News pops up on the Net, I use control-f to find basic Lutheran doctrinal terms. Here are results from the latest issue -
- Justification by Faith - not once.
- Efficacy - not once.
- Means of Grace - not once.
These results are repeated almost every issue, and they are the bitter fruit harvested from decades of palling around with Calvinists. The LCMS leaned on Calvinists as allies when the Battle of the Bible was raging. As David Scaer also let slip, Robert Preus consulted with famous Calvinist theologians to back up his precious Objective Justification attacks on Walter A. Maier II.
This is the phrase I invented to cover this - "The Non-Reciprocity of False Teachers." No matter how much Lutherans may borrow and honor from the Calvinists (Romanists, and others), the false teachers never reciprocate.
When Fuller Seminary was the most popular destination for LCMS-WELS pastors, Fuller fans never tried to study with the Lutherans, another display of how much they despised Lutheran doctrine - or what remained of it in their sects.
LCMS-WELS sent their administrators and synod staff to Fuller, Trinity Divinity, and Willow Creek - to listen to rants about how ineffective Lutherans were. The Lutherans paid - with offering dollars - for the privilege. In fact, when one of my friends became a WELS pastor, they immediately offered to send him to Fuller - for free. Yes, the supposedly tougher-than-tree-roots WELS did that.
Revs. Wally Oelhafen and Fred Adrian, who did so much to shrink the WELS Michigan District, confessed their attendance at Fuller, "But that does not mean we agree with their doctrine." However, they despised my essay on the Means of Grace, which became "The Cure" chapter of Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure. Roger Kovaciny, Church Growth bedfellow of Floyd Stolzenberg, screamed and tossed my paper during the "discussion." Those who sided with the Means of Grace were removed from the ministry by the crafts and assaults of two DPs, Robert Mueller and John Seifert. Kovaciny went to Russia, with love, to convert the Eastern Orthodox to Church Growth dogma.
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