Matthias Loy on Glorifying Human Organizations

Loy Quote - Glorifying human organization [church growth]

Christians who know what an unspeakable gift God has bestowed upon them in the truth in Jesus, having by its gracious power believed in Him, and found peace in believing, cannot treat these things lightly. If the kingdom of God cannot be promoted by our Church work, what is the use of working? Why should we labor and pray and make sacrifices ostensibly to promote the kingdom of God for the salvation of men, when we know that all our efforts are directed to the mere temporal purpose of glorifying human organization? Even the Lutheran Church, as a visible organization, is not worth preserving, if its members consent to reduce it to a mere sect which can live and thrive only by accommodating itself to the reason and feeling and whim of people who do not love the truth and who accept the Augsburg Confession only because of its historical renown, without a care for the saving Gospel which it proclaims or a concern for the kingdom of God in which alone there is salvation. When church work is done in disregard of the truth unto salvation by which souls are rescued from sin and death, and the glory of our Redeemer is promoted, the whole becomes a solemn farce, in which no Lutheran loyal to the Augsburg Confession can consent to engage. Such sham work would be even more disgraceful to Lutherans than to sectarians, because they certainly know better.

From Loy, Matthias. The Augsburg confession: An Introduction To Its Study And An Exposition Of Its Contents Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern, 1908.

WELS New Keith Getty Hymnal

 Keith and Krstyn Getty - “This is the first point in history that what is being sung by the church is not being decided on by the leadership of the church.” Except in WEL$.

I never heard of this duo, their music, or the stampede to make the WELS new hymnal the Keith Getty Retirement Fund. It does seem that Jeske's Church and Change Your Doctrine Mob has in fact imposed their will on the entire synod. And boy, will people pay dearly for that.

So far I have not found out what this couple actually believes.

The irony is that the gas-bag imitations of cool churches in WELS do not want a hymnal at all. And Getty is more prominent in the new hymnal than Gerhardt.

Remember when the "conservative" Lutheran leaders pretended to celebrate the Gerhardt 400th? One ELS professor said about theologian Johann Gerhard - "I really like his hymns." That is the Little Sect that hired a New Testament professor with less education than his students. But - Moldstad finally got a bachelor's degree and soon became Pope John the Unready.

 Start them young and they will get real tattoos later.

WELS May Price Itself Out of the Hymnal Business.More Songs by Gettey (30+) Than by Gerhardt (Who He?)

"I never heard of Getty." - says the blogger.

This is the most loving thing they can do. If they kick enough members out for complaining about the confiscatory prices, the cost per parish may have to increase.

The Lutheran Hymnal does not have those costs, and it is easily far superior to Tiefel_One's disaster and the new debacle.