How many fads have failed the floundering sects - like WELS, LCMS, and so many more? They gathered at Fuller Seminary - even the Church of Rome (where ELCites and Missourians flee). Phoenix experimented with St. Timothy Community, just as Paul Kuske, Roger Zehms, and Floyd Stolzenburg experimented with Pilgrim Community Church.
Let me count the ways -
- Switching from Justification by Faith to Objective Justification - WELS and LCMS
- Getting rid of the KJV in favor of the NIV
- Charismatic Renewal
- Lutheran Marriage Encounter
- Cursillo
- Smells and Bells OJ - Gottesdienst
- Marriage on Fire
- Friendship Sunday
- Cho and Napoleon Hill - using the occult powers of the Universe to get what we covet
- Making disciples
- Church Growth at Fuller Seminary and its satellites - One Sting to rule them all, One Sting to find them; One Sting to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
The last fad binds and rules all other notions imported to replace the Means of Grace. Robert Schuller - a liberal Calvinist - boasted that he invented the Church Growth Movement. He also promoted Paul Y. Cho and Napoleon Hill, both fraudsters of international acclaim and ignominy.
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