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The Lutheran Doom Loop - And a Previous Column
by Adam Turner
I routinely look over the political columns, so I discovered these two gems by Adam Turner, who wrote about beating a topic to death...and then some. During the Kamala Harris campaign I heard nothing but horrible, dishonest, invented accusations (and squeals of anger) about Trump. I kept thinking, "That bellowing is no way to warm up the nation to achieve the electors needed. (There is no popular vote, only the electors who are elected.)
As I read Turner, I thought, "That is exactly how the Lutheran sects work their way down to collapse."
1. They have relied on the business model ever since the Great Depression, because that gave the leaders an excuse to dictate everything and provide luxuries for themselves.
2. The pro-abortion Donald McGavran gave them an incredibly boring Church Growth bible (PhD sociology, Columbia University).
3. Peter Wagner joined with his Pentecostal magic and hyper-drive, though he finally conceded that Church Growth Principles were a failure.
4. All denominations, quasi-Christian groups, and the Church of Rome gather at Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek and other centers of apostasy. Larry Olson (D.Min. Fuller) bragged that WELS and the LCMS had more "graduate" students at Fuller than they had at their own seminaries.
5. Now the Doom Loop becomes impossible to stop. Every seminarian, pastor, and synodical drone must emphasize (with great energy, threats, and dreams) the essential beauty of the Church Growth Movement. The Lutheran sects (and the rest) continue to shrink and lose income, even with Thrivent circulating some of the loot among them - Buy an Irrevocable Annuity Trust! salesmen.
6. The sects all have piles of books - or used to - but those tomes mean nothing. As the great Wayne Mueller said to the WELS youth rally - "Evangelism is easy. All you have to do is say - you are already forgiven."
7. Much like the hysterics on The View, the Lutheran leaders jump on anyone doubting their Doom Loop, scream at them, and shun them. Those who understand the vacuous nature of the leaders must remain silent or leave the organization.
8. They are Photoshopping their statistics, just another downward lurch in the Doom Loop.
9. The Lutherans cannot build on the gimmicks they have borrowed from Fuller, Willow Crick, Andy Stanley, and Trinity Divinity. They have no use for the best Bible (KJV), no concept of the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace. Notice how glowingly they talk about the poison of Objective Justification while avoiding the Scriptural medicine - Justification by Faith.
Sine fide - without faith - the real message.
