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I was going to start with apostasy, which is the only thing left for Lutheran synodical leaders to grasp. But no, I will let people read the WELS, LCMS, ELS, CLC, and ELDONUT periodicals for themselves. Everything is already in writing - easily discerned by what is deceitfully written and cleverly avoided.
For instance, I recall the statistics for ELCA in 1987 - 5.3 million members and 10,000 congregations. Yesterday I saw the official ELCA totals as 4 million members and 9,000 congregations. ELCA did not lose pastors, members and congregations - they drove them away with whips, tasers, poison gas, and insulting slanders. Overall they kept the property, the endowments, and the Irrevocable Charitable Trusts midwifed by Thrivent.
What the overly credentialed and under-educated leaders do not realized is the divine preservation of the Word of God. He did not give us the Sacred Scriptures and say, "Keep this up to date with societal trends and language shifts. He did fashion the Holy Spirit to always work with the Word and never without the Word - only to spin 180 degrees around and say to us, "Do what you will."
The Scriptures have great power because they are preserved and precisely revealed. Therefore, the apostates - who have lost the Faith - must produce counterfeit, denatured Bibles glorified by various ever-weakening PR campaigns - "fresh, new, and exciting."
KJV 2 Thessalonians 2
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Evil will be rebuked and quashed at the End. The inglorious band of scoundrels who deny the content of the Bible and then pass around the plate - they will be uncovered like the wiggling bugs beneath a rotting log.
But in the meantime, the treasures of the Gospel will be valued that much more because of the contrast.
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| 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. |
The Great Commission does not even come close to saying "Make disciples!" but the pickpockets of Church Growth rage against anyone who dares to question the making, because they are makers, and do not let the Holy Spirit teach through the Word.
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| Lutheran Christina will soon be done. Next - the second edition of The Bible BookZ: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God. |
