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| The corporate managers of the ELCA-ELS-WELS-LCMS sects are delighted to deny Christ and embrace Donald McGavran. |
Several matters have come up in the last few weeks.
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One is the obvious collapse of the LCMS-ELS-WELS higher education apparatus. Long ago the synods decided to throw the cost of college and seminary onto the students, unlike those grey beards who took advantage of their own dirt-cheap tuition. One Augustana Seminary student brought in potatoes from his farm as payment for tuition - truly dirt cheap. I paid $75 per semester at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary in 1970, which it was LCA and not ELCiC, eh. At some point the pain became unbearable and students rushed for the exits - or simply avoided the ghastly entry fees. Martin Luther College (WELS) charges huge fees for providing professors with nothing more than a MDiv from Mequon, and the seminary is no better. A DMin is not a doctorate but a joke. Five hundred years ago, a real doctorate was expected of Luther, Chemnitz, and the rest. Mel earned it but was not given the title because he looked so young.
The worst of all worlds is a series of "Lutheran" schools teaching nonsense, mocking the Lutheran Reformation, rejecting the Apostolic text of the Bible, and attacking Justification by Faith. The toxic Jesuits - who did their best to counter the Reformation - are now teaching in the Lutheran chimera of higher education.
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| The Little Red Schoolhouse on the Prairie is overbuilt for its needs. "We built this synod on Marvin Schwan!" |
The synods are falling apart, like the tofu buildings of China, where building materials are so corrupted that structures fall apart within a few years. Because they are crumbling and bumbling, they have no recourse except to work together (ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS) in extracting money from Thrivent's pro-abortion and multi-sexual goals.
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Two students per class year at Bethany Seminary! Are they aware of the real Marvin Schwan story? Not likely. I sent the Forbes magazine to Herman Otten, so it was my fault that Marvin dumped his wife for his manager's! Does anyone have a conscience today? |
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| If the sect managers only exalted the Scriptures as much as ice cream money! |
KJV Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
I am encouraged to hear that there is a network of Lutherans who know their sects have been slowly destroyed by promoting false Bibles, bad hymnals, and predatory managers of mammon. They look forward to Ichabod posts and they love the idea of the Reformation Seminary. Compare our tuition fee - $0 - to the seminaries. Do not forget their book fees, chapel fees, intern charges, parking fees, overpriced meals, and debt.
One long-time friend told me he looked for articles three times a day, and I used to check that - he was right.
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| The nickname for Mequon is The Sausage Factory. |
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| ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS-ELDONUTs-CLC: they share one great hatred - the King James Version. |
