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| The man-made earthworm - breaks down easily, costs a bundle. |
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| The most ignored item in the garden is free. |
Luther's sermon on the Third Sunday after the Epiphany is quite detailed and powerful, doubtless because the Church of Rome had completely abandoned the message of the text - the energy of the Word.
I was going to write "the efficacy of the Word" for those who nod their heads in solemn response. The phrases in English are parallel to the Greek text, which is so important - now that seminary students no longer translate or use the original wording.
So let's use "the energy of the Word" because energy is Greek for "working in." A gardener will say at the hardware store, "Is this fertilizer effective?" That depends on whether the magical stinky formula comes from a chemical company - or - from earthy Creation itself (earthworms, moles, decaying wood, leaves).
Remember "The Word never without the Spirit, the Spirit never without the Word"?That was taught in Hoenecke's dogmatics book, which remained German only until around the late 1980s. WELS liked Pieper's exotic blend of Justification without Faith, a clever ruse.
The denominations - especially the soi-disant Lutherans - are dead in the water and sinking because they have no concept of energy in the Word of God. So they waste everyone's money with store-bought schemes from famous clergy of momentary fame.
"I was glad when they said unto me, Let us become unstuck." That is a certain sign of spiritual blindness, where a salesman sells a sales product, on people who have tried everything else. That describes most of the Lutherans today (to be precise) and the mainline denominations.
- They meet together at Fuller Seminary and other houses of ill-repute.
- They deny Schuller three times (as Rick Warren did).
- They sob into Willow Creek and its food court.
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| What marketing! the lop-sided smile of contradiction. |
