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| Is this taught anywhere now in Lutherdom? |
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| Where are your methods now, your wiles of the devil? Gasoline, that study for youth? The disastrous Tiefel hymnal, your Calvinistic arguments to sell people on joining? Your precious DMin in Church Growth? |
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles (Greek - methods, literally) of the devil.
I remember when one CLC (sic) patriarch sneered with wrath, defending the other Tiefel's "methods." He especially stressed "methods," as if I had violated all Ten Commandments at once. That may be why I have a special fondness for Ephesians 6:10-17.
- Fresh popcorn handed out to the so-called worshipers going into church. Oh, they are just seekers.
- Warmed-over Calvinist bar music played by a hopelessly bad pit band.
- The pastor preaching from his iPad because he cannot remember the nonsense he copied from another master of methods. Walking around with the iPad is especially effective.
- That curious see-saw effect: the higher Fuller goes up, the lower Luther and the Scriptures descend.
The Internet may have a virus or two, but it is Covid free. How much genuine Biblical study is broadcast free and without a secret code each week?
How much time is spent researching and writing an original sermon each week - and made available for all to see? If the full-time pastor gets $50,000 a year in salary, benefits, and housing, is each sermon worth $1,000?
I continue to wait for the Church Growth stars to apologize to their synods for taking them on a disastrous tour de farce. Everything had to go their way, because all their methods would grow the synod. Don't tell me they just wanted to promote their Calvinistic hypocrisy!
Their salaries grew, because they were experts. Their bellies grew, because they daily fed them sumptuously. Their wardrobes grew lavishly, because a professional church growther has to live the part he plays.
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| 50 Years of Grace - Without the Means of Grace! |
