If Baylor University Is Not Baptist - Is Baylor's Truett Seminary Not Gay Affirming?

 

Truett Theological Seminary Hosts Gay-Affirming Speakers, Panelists

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George W. Truett Theological Seminary, or ‘Truett’ for short, is a Texas-based seminary operated by Baylor University (The World’s largest Baptist university) and associated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. [GJ -Truett was late in starting, so they avoided affirming Biblical inerrancy.]

With nearly 400 students, they describe themselves as an “orthodox, evangelical school in the historic Baptist tradition” with a mission to “equip God-called people for gospel ministry in and alongside Christ’s Church by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

We recently wrote about Baylor after Greg Garrett, their pro-choice, gay-affirming, trans-affirming professor of Literature and Culture who called a centuries-old hymn “sexist” for containing the word “brethren,” and after he chastised author J.K Rowling for posting a lengthy Twitter thread where she repeatedly called a bunch of trans-women “men” on Trans Day of Visibility, something he found intolerable. 

Garrett also appears to be a key organizer in the new annual “racism” conference at Truett Seminary. Whereas last year’s featured Jemar Tisby and Beth Moore talking about racism in the white church, this year’s “Racism in the world church” includes a bunch of antinomians lecturing believers about how to be better Christians.

As part of the conference “Racism In The World Church” 2024, Truett/Baylor’s held a panel that was composed of pastors at affirming churches (at least 2 of 3 speakers). Woke Preacher TV explains:

Sean Palmer, an Enneagram guru and teaching pastor at Ecclesia Houston, proudly declared in a 2018 speech that his church has accepted transgender individuals and same-sex couples into membership.

Timothy Peoples is senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, which advertises its affirming stance and is a member of the Association Of Welcoming + Affirming Baptists and participated in Dallas Pride last year.

(The third panel member, famed musician Jimi Calhoun, doesn’t really counter-balance the other men’s stances, as his “church,” Bridging Austin, appears to just be him, his wife, and a friend who have streamed a handful of brief “online liturgies” and held “meetups” advertised as “Taizé Contemplative Services” in the past few months.)

At the end of their conversation, titled “Black Pastors In White Spaces,” Palmer alludes to the objection of @NeilShenvi and agrees that adopting a critical social justice frame towards race will inevitably lead to compromise on “a whole constellation of other issues and topics that I also have to treat similarly.”

[From Wikipedia - Seminary faculty at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and other SBC seminaries were being required to sign documents indicating agreement with Scriptural inerrancy. The board of regents and trustees were able to avoid this requirement at Truett. Truett Seminary was and is more accepting of moderate theology.]

The Big Five Plus One - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic)-ELDONA.Baylor Baptist University Goes Woke

 

Why Does Baylor University Have a Pro-Choice, Gay-Affirming, Trans-Affirming Professor?

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A woke professor at Baylor University has come under fire for blasting acclaimed Harry Potter author J.K. Rowing for her opposition to normalizing the transgender movement, calling her out for her apparent ‘hatred of trans-people.’ While this is deeply troubling, it is hardly the worst thing about him.

Founded in 1845 and claiming 16,000 students, Baylor University is the world’s largest Baptist University and one of the oldest. Like many once-faithful institutions that have gone before her, however, Baylor is deeply compromised and is inexorably on the downgrade. 

Not only have they hosted Beth Moore and Jemar Tisby for a conference on “Racism in the White Church,” an embarrassment of cringe if there ever was one, but Baylor recently hosted a “Queer Sex-Ed Night whose advertisements featured a Planned Parenthood logo.

Despite affirming that “The mission of Baylor University is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community” and “the biblical understanding that sexual relations of any kind outside of marriage between a man and a woman are not in keeping with the teaching of Scripture,” they don’t actually believe this, and it’s easy to see why. 

Enter Greg Garrett, Baylor’s pro-choice, gay-affirming, trans-affirming professor of Literature and Culture. He recently gained a couple of million views after chastising Rowling for posting a lengthy Twitter thread where she repeatedly called a bunch of trans-women “men” on Trans Day of Visibility, something he found intolerable. 

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GJ - I could not resist posting from Protestia.com again.

Rev. Kent A. Heimbigner, Ph.D. has left a new comment on your post "Baptist Theologian Takes Congregation Out of LCMS:...": 

Hi Greg:

Thank you for your interest in what my good and faithful congregation has done. I have met you, and certainly appreciate your sense of humor, but for the sake of those who may not understand it, I offer a couple of points of clarification:

1) There is no such thing as "Baylor Baptist University." There is only "Baylor University," which has a Baptist history, but is not affiliated with any Baptist denomination. 

2) I am not a "Baptist theologian," nor am I going to join the Eastern Orthodox. I am getting a chuckle out of putting those together and imagining what it would be like to be an Easternizing Baptist. I guess they are both synergists, but I'm not. I will remain Lutheran. At ordination, I swore an oath. It matters to me. And my beloved congregation is on that same "we've got to stay Lutheran" page with me.

BTW, for my response to Fr. Fenton heading east, check out my blog on the website, http://www.confessionallutheran.org/content/view/142/91/

Todd, thanks for your clarifying posts. Greg, it's been too long, and I hope our paths cross again in due course. Peace be with you both.

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GJ - Actually, Kent, you asked to stay here for the LCMS conference and didn't show up or explain.

I see you share Todd Wilken's sense of humor. Or, as Bruce Church suggested, "What's the point?"

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GJ -

2016 Update.

Here is the original post, which still bothers ELDONA seven (7) years later.

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2009/01/baptist-theologian-takes-congregation.html

Baylor University in Waco, Texas, is a private Baptist university, and a nationally ranked liberal arts institution. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Baylor is the oldest, continually operating university in the state. Though 80% of our students come from within Texas, we are home to students from all 50 states, and 70 countries.

Instructor - "You Are My Favorite Demographic." The Synods Knew the Demographics Years Ago, And Skimmed the Cream

 

HAL, a tribute to IBM, knew the future of synods.

I signed onto my class - toward an online teaching degree (MA, Adult Education) and read this greeting from one of the instructors. "You are my favorite demographic." She read too many statistics, and that sounded ominous.

Decades ago, the LCA was projecting the future using statistics. They said, "It used to be that half the babies baptized would be in confirmation. Now there are very few to stay in the same church where they were baptized." I looked up the figures of my first call. Earlier, half the baptized members were there for confirmation. Later, very few. America was mobile and having fewer children. Christina and I attended a big LCA conference where one staffer predicted everything from statistics.

The LCMS, WELS, and others did the same thing. AAL/Lutheran Brotherhood naturally used statistics to gain from the synodical trends, just as they did with mortality. Large numbers do not lie. The synodicals were afraid, so they latched onto the worst possible influencers - Robert Schuller (covert), Fuller Seminary (Paradise on earth), Trinity Divinity (a WELS fave), and others. The executive managers (no real leaders spotted) were eager to pretend future prosperity when they should have known they were thieves and robbers claiming to lay up treasures in heaven. They were quite willing to keep the farce growing while they poured out millions to give themselves a better future.

When I plant roses, I use all the best organic ingredients to provide rich soil without the poisons from the chemical business. Anyone can dose the plants, often fatally, but the successes come from God's Creation and all the things done to grow beautiful roses. Moreover, the Creation combinations bring even more good to the garden. John 15 is strikingly like this parallel.

 KJV John 15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

The synods bet on fakey gimmicks fermented in the limited minds of useful idiots (Evangelism committees, mandates, programs, posters, films, and slide shows). They never thought about faith in Jesus Christ because they were there for the loot, the bonus for being close with the most obnoxious managers (district and synod presidents). Those are the charlatans who built brand new gyms for the ELS and WELS, knowing their student bodies would shrink as fast as the synod waistbands expand. 

WELS famously spent $30 million on merging Dr. Martin Luther College with Northwestern College. Add their gym and other luxuries - where does one start?

The ELS is finishing a gym worth $15 million - or is it $17 million - for a demographic that will demand more shuffle board room for the last few players.

Lutheran Seminary Education - A Disaster Fueled By ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC-Thrivent

 

Harvard University - Listen to the English Professor on the topic of Christianity: the basics of  mainline Protestants, Roman Catholic leaders, and Lutherans.

On Amazon Prime Video and audio sources - "Professor Leo Damrosch of Harvard University helps you navigate the Gibbon Decline and Fall themes, structure, and lasting influence."

I enjoyed Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and gave away my complete set to a genius student. I was enjoying Leo Damrosch's narration about Gibbon until he got on the topic of Christianity. I recognized that he was reciting the complete Handbook for Mocking, Unbelieving Agnostics. Forget Gibbon - Damrosch was on a toot that I have heard or read countless times, a litany of ignorance. The scholar became an advocate; the camera almost gave away his hooves.

Handbook for Mocking, Unbelieving Agnostics

I will summarize some of his unsupported claims:

1. The Trinity is not found in the New Testament.
2. The relationship between the Father and the Son is confused and confusing.
3. Miracles are a joke, easily disproven.
4. The Gospel of John is not apostolic but much later.
5. The New Testament texts were mixed up with all kinds of contrary copies, errors, contradictions.
6. Gibbon was right - there is no contest. Believing Christian leaders are not credible.

Christianity became an echo chamber for the errors of Calvinism and Pietism, and the Lutherans fell for both errors in various ways. Lutherans copied the weakness of the Mainlines with their betrayal of the King James Version. Lutherans followed with caving into the Harvard Handbook for Mocking, Unbelieving Agnostics and made it their own, starting with ALC/LCA and moving forward to the inbred Walther Synodical Conference.

Examples:

• The Watherites smothered the Reformation with endless worship of CFW Hisself. That disorder continues to this day, because it is a perfumed version of the Handbook for Mocking, Unbelieving Agnostics. Everyone is saved! Everyone! 
• Simple question - Does LutherQuest ever teach Dr. Martin Luther? or do they endlessly drool over the mythological CFW Walther, BA?
• All the Lutherans use a wide variety of Bad Bibles, from the Burglar Beck Bible to the NIV, and the three National Council of Churches Bibles - RSV, ESV, NRSV. The Greek New Testaments used (but not thoroughly) are straight from the bowels of Tischendorf and other frauds. 
• One example - the absent ending of Mark, with no empty tomb, no risen Christ, is the one of the latest belches from Concordia Publishing House. 
• Another example - CPH is also guilty of proclaiming and hiding their precious Waltherian forgiveness without faith, which is - by the way - essential to all mainline doctrine today. Everyone is saved. Everyone!
• Finally - the gravitational tug continues, as it must, in apostasy, with the so-called Confessional or Orthodox or Rock-ribbed Lutherans copying the radical Left while hushing critics up. Harmony comes from feeding from the same troughs - Thrivent Insurance and Irrevocable Trusts, plus the Omnivorous Siebert Luther Foundation.  

 Pity the Students

The Synodicals treat seminarians like dirt, with threats always before them - but not much education gleaned. Of course, the relatives of synodical bigwigs can do anything they want and find themselves rewarded and even arrogant about being bullet-proof, thanks to uncle, or dad, or grandfather. One WELS DP tried to impress me by revealing who his grandfather was! I was supposed to gasp in awe.

The charges for attending seminary are criminal, especially in light of what the carefree church bureaucrats give each other. As I wrote before, my tuition was $150 a year in 1970. The LCA told us, "Don't use this motel for the evangelism conference, pastors. It is too costly." Christina said, "Let's go there. The bigshots will be there." We picked that motel and the bigshots said with shock, "Why are you here?" (I knew them.) I said, "My wife said the bigshots would be here." 

Worst of all, the seminaries are not being taught the real Bible, the KJV, or the real text of the New Testament, the Traditional or Apostolic Text. The theology taught is a miserable combination of Fuller Seminary, Karl the Adulterer Barth, Paul the Promiscuous Tillich, and huge doses against Luther-Melanchthon-Chemnitz. I could probably grill the graduating class of any Lutheran seminary and get them to describe the work of Chemnitz or Melanchthon. It would be either tragic or funny what they said.

WELS-LCMS-ELS-ELCA all mocked or ignored the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, 1517.

 

Concordia Publishing House Honors the Reformation!

 

"We both have fake doctorates!"

Seminaries for Training Pastors Are Teaching Their Own Translation Ignorance And Doctrinal Apostasy

 

Knapp and Rambach were two of the Pietists who promoted universal forgiveness the moment Jesus rose from the tomb, based on their false interpretation of 1 Timothy 3:16. CFW Walther, taught by Pastor Martin Stephan STD, repeated this Halle University poison and gradually worked it into the Missouri Synod. Stephan's first letter to young Walther tied the junior Pietist fanatic to the senior, a syphilis patient. Walther used this knowledge about the cell group leader when they got to America stealing Stephan's church, land, gold, books, and person items.

I started with Pietism because the Pietist organizations in Europe encouraged and established the same institutions in America. Superstar Spener was just about perfect in their eyes. Anyone can see from the results of Fuller Seminary that cell groups are the "real church" and the only way "to grow a church." These errors repudiate the efficacy of the Word, the Means of Grace, and Justification by Faith. 

Lately the fanatics have been piling up grace so they chant five of them. But the only way to grace is faith in Jesus Christ, as Paul taught so clearly - 

Romans 5:5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

All Christian groups should teach this, which is why the Luther-Melanchthon-Chemnitz Reformation taught Justification by Faith as the Chief Article of Christianity, not just of Lutherans or Pietists or  Catholics or Methodists or Catholic/Eastern Orthodox.  But now we have almost no Lutherans teaching this article, including two stumble-bums in WELS who declared their notion that universal forgiveness happened the world - the moment Christ left the tomb, as if there was a tripwire. 

And these two yahoos are not alone. It is the sacred creed of WELS, ELCA, LCMS, ELS, CLC and other Lutherans (when pinned down, after asking the right questions to uncover their lies). These Enthusists also promote the Atonement of Christ on the cross as universal absolution, when it suits them, saying, "We were all saved when Jesus died on the cross."

Moreover, the large unLutheran denominations are lost and bewildered in their efforts to teach social activism of all kinds - and genders - as the actual Gospel.

Worthless Seminary Professors - Ignorant Seminary Graduates

The seminaries are collapsing, which is good. Students cannot learn very much because their professors - often marginal at best - do not teach them the Biblical languages and faith in Jesus Christ. Lacking both, they party a lot, follow key professors around, and hide what they really learn from their congregations . 

The seminary graduates for more than 75 years have been taught against the Scriptures and they do not even study the originals. Their NIV-ESV-RSV-etc Bibles have so many erasures and clobbered words that the students hardly know what is actually in the manuscripts. Very little is taught as Scripture so they can ruminate on the extreme Left being the One Truth of their lives. Add some counseling courses, yes, good, and some practical classes, which are ideal for broken down alcoholic professors to teach. The students graduate as know-it-alls, forever thinking their lazy professors were really great.

 

Matt the Fatt Harrison (an MDiv) Is the Judas Goat Leading the Sheep to the Slaughter.

Harrison was a beauty school drop-out, not even studious enough to earn an in-house seminary "doctorate," which one St. Louis president said was "worthless outside the synod." His title was bestowed after he won his first election with the help of Herman Otten. The latest election had Harrison pictured as 20+ pounds lighter, but he bounced back up after winning. So we should think.

The Harrison article on Divine Authority, October 2, 2023, is a disgrace, bowing and scraping to the dominant ELCA element in Missouri seminaries, colleges, and the toxic Concordia Publishing House.

There are plenty of Bible “difficulties.” There are dating challenges for biblical events. There are archaeological conundrums. There are apparent discrepancies between accounts of the same event. There are parallel passages with dissimilar wording. Events in the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels appear to occur at different times, and much more. A great Bible like The Lutheran Study Bible with all its notes is tremendously helpful.

The opening paragraph uses soporific terms without any substance or sources. Each sentence is a stink-bomb adding to the fetid stew of errors:

1. Difficulties are plentiful? but God promised to preserve His Word - and He has.
2. Where are the dating problems?
3. Archeology has proven the minute facts of the Bible; Harrison is too lazy to find out.
4. Apparent discrepancies suggest that the Holy Trinity had but one Book to reveal His will, but could not find a way to convey it clearly.
5. Harrison is even mixed up about events in Jesus' ministry.
6. CPH's books are a wealth of contradictions, bloviation, and smooth Satanic deception, and they help make Missouri wealthy, hardened, and smug.

Harrison has not finished his destruction of the Reformation -

In perhaps an odd way, I’m comforted when I see that an early copyist monkeyed around with one of these challenging New Testament texts. He just couldn’t bear to leave the text alone when he found it hard to harmonize with another passage.

I would be comforted if the apostates like Harrison, Liz Eaton, and Mark Schroeder admitted Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were fakes, that "Dr." Tischendorf was a greedy liar. Here is a simple comparison - the Traditional Greek New Testament text has 5,000 or more witnesses. These are shoved aside by the radicals in favor of a handful of others. The Traditional Greek New Testament is also called the Byzantine, Apostolic, or Received Text.

Not church bodies but businesses produce the promiscuous printing of modern Bibles, while the fading and failing denominations sell them as labor-free money-makers. The National Council of Churches, known for its Marxism and gaiety, produced the Revised Standard Version (removing the Virgin Birth from the text). They did such a good job in modernizing that they licensed the New RSV, and the ESV. Murdoch's NIV was not ridiculous enough, so they created the New NIV, decidedly worse.

 Where would they be without each other, the Thrivent loot, and the Siebert training camps?

More could be said, such as Matt's gratuitous use of "the justification of the world," which is a deliberated rejection of Justification by Faith.

If this is the best Matt Harrison could do, with the help of ghost-writers, Missouri is going to being finished just as fast as the Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

How To Find Bad Translation Examples - 

BibleGateway! NIV

The key to finding bad translations is supplied by the NIV aka Bible Gateway

Isaiah 7:14

King James Version

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Read full chapter

Isaiah 7:14 in all English translations <- Click on that for the list.

Mark 16:9 in all translations <- The earliest (fraudulent) ones do not cite the Empty Tomb.

 No empty tomb in Mark 16:9-20? - That is the WELS/LCMS/ELCA stance.

Pity the Church Managers Who Will Be Remembered for the Debacles

 

One member cautioned me to stop saying "church leaders" because they are not leaders, but managers (at best). The managers attain their richly endowed palaces of spiritual poverty by following rather than by leading. They took their inheritance, like the Prodigal Son, and wasted it on slow horses and fast women, as the parable suggests. However, there is no repentance, only scapegoating. 

The son of one synod president, who was noted for covering up at least one felony, told another person, "Greg Jackson almost destroyed WELS." That seemed a bit harsh to me, but it explained the difference between the Chief Article of Christianity - Justification by Faith - and their mindless devotion to universal forgiveness without faith, Objective Justification.

What is the one quality needed in those managers? They lack faith in Jesus Christ and spread their poison as much as they can. They live in fear, which is why they spend so much time covering up crimes and absolving the guilty who give them political power. Because they have no grasp of the Christian Faith, they only do their work by deceit. Whether wasting away or ready to explode in fat, they look miserable. 

ELCA was so deviously choreographed at its 1987 conception that the shrieking hens of lesbian dominance had to come out of their covens and take over in 2009. Some demi-semi-conservative male bishops were alarmed, but Liz Eaton knew their warnings would only weaken male tradition. She moved from being podunk local bishop in Ohio in 2007 to ELCA Presiding Bishop in 2013. She no longer looks gleeful about her overwhelming win and her messianic delusions.

As a student of essential details in biographies I continue to be curious about male bishops having wives and children, while women bishops have... No one seems to know. When a new female bishop is placed on her ecclesiastical throne, no one seems to be included. I thought inclusion and belong were "the thing". Liz Eaton is married, but the female bishop majority appears to be solitary.

The intellectual strength of the women bishops seems to be zero, perhaps even less. A group of them chanted for a journalist that the Holy Spirit was locked in the closet and ready to come out. 

The irony is that the so-called conservative synod managers pretend to be distant from the bird cage of crazies, La Cage aux Folles. They have been huddled together with ELCA since I do not know when. I enjoyed forcing out the story about the WELS and LCMS managers "conferring" with the ELCA manager at Snowbird. Curiously, ELCA's The Lutheran covered this accurately while WELS and Missouri were wet-their-pants frightened. Otten reproduced The Lutheran's article. All references to ELCA-LCMS-WELS Snowbird have been scrubbed from the Internet. 

ELCA Women Bishops - Let the Holy Spirit Out of the Closet!

Party in the MLC article - hilariously deceitful.

If the reader thinks ELCA is gayer than lavender hose, then look at WELS videos and synod support for them. "Party in the MLC (Martin Luther College)" was uploaded to YouTube and favored by many inside WELS and outside as well.

What do the ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC managers have brewing?

Their higher education schools represent tons of buildings that are no longer needed.

The perks of managing are very expensive and so it the cost of medical insurance.

The clergy do not have faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and therefore turn to secure, gimmicky plans that consume money while shrinking their base even more. 

Any group can gather and form a congregation more faithful than the atrocities promoted by the apostates synods.

 Liz Eaton and her cohorts won the 2009 ELCA vote at this Twin City congregation.
A ferocious storm knock the cross over.

The Babylon Bee Should Aim at the ELCA's Bedmates - WELS, LCMS, ELS, CLC (sic), Little Rome's Smells and Belles (ELDONA)

 

"Bishop DeJaynes, I will pass your softball base mitre to an ELCA Bishop, until ELDONA demands one of their own."

The Babylon Bee gang-tackled ELCA for having no connection with Luther or the Reformation. 

Have the Bees looked at WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC-ELDONA? Not one of them is Lutheran or even Lutheran-Lite. 

Most of them do deluxe conferences with ELCA and share the Thrivent loot, making them one with ELCA. 

The wannabees are indifferent about abortion, a heinous crime.

WELS was gayer than lavender hose, years before ELCA came out of the closet. LCMS? They know. As one LCMS pastor said to another, "You can't do that. We're not in seminary anymore." (Lawsuit concerning a boy)

Most importantly, those who call themselves conservative or confessional or orthodox repudiate Luther and the Scriptures. That is the foundational issue. 

Which part of Matt the Fatt's wardrobe be enhanced next? Mitre? Big Stick? White Slippers?

Listen Up - Apostate Synods and Crypto-Papists!The Episcopal Numbers Describe Your Ultimate Doom

 

Virtue Online - Stats Reveal Future of American Episcopalians

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
June 23, 2023

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH is in a parlous state and more serious decline than anyone first thought. The latest 2021 domestic statistics show that there are 1,522,688 who identify as Episcopalians, of which 19.2% show up for weekly church services across 6,294 American churches with attendance under 50 in most parishes. Only 292,851 people warm domestic Episcopal Church pews during any given week. This is the lowest recorded numbers to date. 2022 and 2023 statistics will surely be even lower when we obtain them.

One in four priests in TEC is homosexual. The number of funerals, (23, 127) outweighed the number of baptisms (13,859) by nearly 2 to 1 in the Episcopal Church in 2021. Hundreds of parishes cannot find priests. The Episcopal Church is dying.

By 2040, it will, to all intents and purposes cease to exist. The millions of dollars spent litigating to hold onto properties will be viewed as wasted money as properties will eventually lie fallow. In time, they will become social centers, condos, saloons, bars, arts centers and more. They will no longer be places of worship. The abandonment of scripture as authoritative on all matters of faith and practice is the curse of revisionist and progressive thinking. God is not mocked; The Episcopal Church is reaping what it has sown and it has reaped the whirlwind.

You can read Mary Ann Mueller's full report, EXECUTIVE COUNCIL REARRANGES DECK CHAIRS here: https://virtueonline.org/episcopal-church-executive-council-rearranges-deck-chairs

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PRIDE MONTH. My article The Queering of The Episcopal Church looks at just how far the Episcopal Church has slid off the theological rails. If one had any doubt about how far the Episcopal Church will go in adapting to the culture, one need look no further than June -- Pride Month -- commemorating the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Pride started out as a homosexual men's rebellion. Today it has morphed into a spate of LGBTQ+ sexualities which both the culture and liberal mainline denominations celebrate with public displays that border on the pornographic.

The White House and its current president have also cheered it along, embarrassing a vast swath of Americans who feel uncomfortable celebrating a behavior that has taken so many lives.

After the cross-dressing parish picnic, lovingly portrayed in a public website, the holier-than-thou Wisconsin sect (aka WELS) made this pastor the lead speaker at one of their national events for parochial teachers. 

Southern Baptist Convention Losing Members As Fast As LCMS-ELCA-WELS-CLC. Here's To You, Fuller Seminary, For Getting Funded by These Idiots

These are the WELS Church Growth stars from just one seminary class. Each Mordor class has its own CG fanatics. They took over the politics using Jeske's secretive Church and Change cult. LCMS, ELS, and CLC (sic) are almost the same. Your experiences with these fake sects will vary.

ELCA was doing this Church Growth stuff before the 1987 merger and WELS went gay before ELCA, because they wanted government student loans.

American Spectator (mildly conservative) has posted an article on the meltdown of the Southern Baptist Convention, which lost One Half Million Members last year alone. Total SB losses are 1.3 million in the last three years. That total is equal to or larger than the entire American Baptist Church and the entire Presbyterian Church USA.

Listen for the WELS-LCMS eunuchs explaining, "The others are far worse off than we are!"

Only One Truth - Not Many Truths

Christian News cannot help but prevaricate when it claims to honor Walter A. Maier and his Harvard doctorate in Semitics.

Westcott believed that Jesus Christ would one day blend with all of humanity, a type of slow-mo Objective Justification. Hort worshiped Mary and invented what he considered a scholarly Greek New Testament (no footnotes). W-H is the basis for all the modern New Testaments, from the Evil Four paraphrases - RSV, NIV, ESV, NRSV - on down to the Beck Bible.

I noticed - perhaps not alone - that the era of pluralism has given way to rigid, hateful, condemnation. America the Free has become the Condemn Nation.

The nominal Lutherans have led the way into the abyss. They expend most of their energy 

• shunning people within their midst and 
• extending the Left Boot of Fellowship to them. 

Next they jump on busses and planes to attend conferences for all denominations, listening glassy-eyed and pulses-pounding to Fuller Seminary experts, searching for the most iconic gimmick for rescuing their sorry decline.

I was shocked this week when a book from some "conservatives" arrived, so I thought it meant one, true Bible. The authors insisted - the NASB! - condemning the KJV so angrily that I began to think the Bibles we give away stated "KJV-ONLY!" on the title page. The writers clearly wanted to press-gang KJV readers, to force them into the NASB beehive.

The nominal Lutherans should have adhered to this simple formula, stated by Dr. Walter Maier on a book published by Christians News, Inc.

The late Herman Otten and Cub Editor Phil Hale repudiated both truths - Bible inerrancy and Justification by Faith. Both pastors, rock-ribbed graduates of Missouri Synod seminaries

1. Fell in love with the modernist Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament errors craved by Beck;
2. Rejected the Chief Article of the Christian Faith.

Let us pause for a moment and observe how destructive the Otten-Hale hypocrisy has been. 

The Beck Bible is a joke, no different from the RSV, NIV, ESV, or NRSV - the Evil Four. In contrast, the precise King James Version is the most accurate and also the unifying Bible for all English denominations. But lo, the denominations have divided up the Bible market so they can make some ready cash - just like Otten and Hale - while emphasizing their particular translation fetishes.

The typical Luther Bible study group now has five different dynamic equivalence Bibles sprinkled among them. (I am a total immersionist.) The average groups differ here and there, emphasizing either "There is no truth" or "All truths are God's truth."

Likewise, the WELS-ELCA-LCMS-ELS-CLC Enthusiasts disdain and belittle Justification by Faith. On that Satanic basis, they love each other, work and purr together, and share the Thrivent loot as one. The LCMS-WELS-ELS got together and found! to their delight! that they agreed about Objective Faithless Justification. They were equally dishonest at the almost deserted Emmaus Conference. No professors showed up for that smooch-fest. "Oh Jon-Boy! Oh Jay!"

Jesus taught that we cannot have two masters. 

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.

We cannot mix together a bunch of apostate Biblical paraphrases and sniff that the KJV c-a-a-a-n be accepted as good...maybe. Can we read even the worst of the paraphrases and say?:

1. The Scriptures do not teach its efficacy, the Word and the Holy Spirit always at work together.
2. The Word, Holy Baptism, and Holy Communion are not the Means (Instruments) of God's grace.
3. Justification by Faith is nowhere to be found in those National Council of Marxist Churches Bibles.

As an eye-witness, I can prove something that would stun Liz Eaton, Mirthless Mark Schroeder, and Matt the Fatt Harrison. At a non-Lutheran private Christian college, where none of the students were Lutheran, I asked how anyone could accept the New NIV about Romans 3. 

NIV Romans 3:24 and all are justified freely by his grace

They responded - take note - "Yes, it does add all, as if everyone in the world is forgiven, but Justification by Faith is still there! You cannot deny that!"

They were right. The New NIV, loved by all nominal Lutherans, is genius level work, revealing two opposing views from the Apostle Paul in the same chapter. The battle has already been won by the synodicals' Father Below. The bad expels the good, because there are not many truths, but One Truth.

Us? Extend the Left Boot of Fellowship?