The number of people in church on Sunday has reached critical mass - downward. We do not have a set of statistics at Bethany Lutheran Church, but principle cause is easy to discover. That is the neglect of the sermon and teaching the Gospel. The LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC Walther Combine is not much different from the rapid ELCA catastrophic losses.
I have one example from a known blog. He set up a server for WELS pastors to swap sermons. Plagiarizing others is considered a necessity for lazy, faithless pastors. He said that his server was busy all night on Saturday. Some groups of pastors do their own copying, so "three out of four borrow from the fourth - a sermonizer who does the work". More examples come from the WELS Love Shack, where the staff copy each other's work. One pastor visited the Love Shack for committee meetings and found two staffers copying the same devotion, word for word.
The Big Four Walther Combine runs on the principle that everyone is already saved - Objective Faithless Justification. When this is questioned, they howl with rage and cite imaginary passages, teaching such nuggets as "everyone in Hell is a guilt-free saint."
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| This is so bad, it is laughable, but Kelm was the key spokesperson for Fuller Seminary. |
The Bible is a very good book for heretics (Luther) so these bobble-heads necessarily fill their empty brains with slogans. The one thing needful is ridiculed - a faithful Bible, the King James Version. The Walther Combine plucks a few words out of their constantly changing propaganda. They exchange a firm foundation for quicksand, saving time and energy (they think). The result is hollowed out piety, their altered Book sliding into the mire of secular Marxism and gender-bending.
Pastoral visitation is as rare as an honest synod president.
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| A lifeline is used to rescue people from drowning. The Walther Combine chose to toss anchors at their drowning victims. Their first gem was the NIV. |
