Friday, June 25, 2021

Anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. The LCMS-WELS-ELS Were Delighted To Discover They All Rejected the Augsburg Confession and Justification by Faith

The Holy Roman Emperor called for an Imperial Diet to deal with the Evangelicals, Led by Luther. This resulted in the Augsburg Confession of Faith, 1530
















LCMS-WELS-ELS Delighted To Reject Justification by Faith and Embrace Objective Justification

In 2012 the leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (The Little Sect on the Prairie), The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) decided to hold an informal meeting, which was held in December 2012. The impetus behind the meeting was the election of Rev. Mark Schroeder as president of WELS in 2007 and the election of Rev. Matthew Harrison as president of the LCMS in 2010, providing a new opportunity for discussions.

Last but certainly not least, there was special joy to understand that we all hold to objective justificationthat God declared the world righteous through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and that we all recognize it to be the urgent mission of the church to take this gospel to the entire world. 


LutherQuest - Guardians of doctrinal stupidity.

 Did Martin Stephan's teaching about Objective Justification expunge his conscience in his affairs with young women? Did OJ make it easy for Walther to steal millions from his mentor and take control of the sect?

Thoughts about Life - Offered to Rev. George Gerberding













"The sainted Rev. Dr. Passavant of Pittsburg once told the writer how he had been called in to see a dying stranger. He found an old man with a patriarchal beard on his dying bed. After a kindly greeting Dr. Passavant asked the man what his hopes were for the next world. The old man closed his eyes, folded his hands across his breast, and slowly repeated that next to inspired gem of Evangelical truth, Luther's Explanation of the second Article of the Apostles' Creed, as he had: learned it over three score years ago in the confirmation class. Here it is:

"I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is my Lord; who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, secured and delivered me from all sins, from death and from the power of the devil, not with silver and gold, but with His holy and precious blood and with His innocent sufferings and death; in order that I might be His own, live under Him in His Kingdom, and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and_blessedness; even as He is risen from the dead and lives and reigns to all eternity. "This is most certainly true."

Dr. Passavant said that in his ministry of fifty years he had not seen a more beautiful deathbed nor heard a more blessed dying testimony."

Taken from: George Gerberding. Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man. 1925/2021.



 


Free Online Books at LutheranLibrary.org


George Henry Gerberding. The Priesthood of Believers by George H. Gerberding.

George Henry Gerberding. The Lutheran Church in the Country by George H. Gerberding.

George Henry Gerberding. What's Wrong With The World? by George H. Gerberding.

George Henry Gerberding. New Testament Conversions by George H. Gerberding.

George Henry Gerberding. The Life and Letters of William Passavant D.D. by George Henry Gerberding.

George Henry Gerberding. Revere Franklin Weidner: A Character Sketch, Appreciation, and Tribute by George Henry Gerberding.

George Henry Gerberding. Reminiscent Reflections of a Youthful Octogenarian by George Henry Gerberding.

George Henry Gerberding. The Way of Salvation In The Lutheran Church by George Gerberding.