Once More with Feeling: UOJ and Church Growth Enthusiasm Go Together

The post below, about UOJ and the Intrepid Lutherans, shows how the false doctrine of UOJ is coming unraveled in WELS and the Little Sect on the Prairie.

UOJ is the natural foundation and fuel for the Church Growth Movement. As Jefferson said in another context, "It is its natural manure."

Lutherans have lost their nerve. They no longer trust the Word of God. They refuse to worship in the beauty of His Holiness. Instead, they mock the Means of Grace by copying the lowest forms of life in Evangelicalism.

Erling Teigen and Other Old Relics Turn Up at Bethany

Old Main Time Capsule Opened

It was an exciting day at Bethany Lutheran College on Tuesday, August 9, 2011. A number of faculty, friends, and community members gathered as a variety of artifacts were removed from a time capsule that was placed in the Old Main cornerstone when the building was constructed in 1910-11.

Among the many items found in the century-old capsule were an original mortgage bond for Old Main, catechisms, newspapers of the day, and various Lutheran publications.

Professor Erling Teigen helped explain the significance of several items as each was removed and shown to the gathered audience. The items will be on display during the fall semester in our Memorial Library.

Old Main Time Capsule Opening 2011

One item placed in the capsule was a copy of the first mortgage bond when the school was built.

People Repudiate History When They Forget It

A blacksmith named John Deere, committed to quality, changed my hometown, Moline, by moving there to make his new plow.

We watched a British TV series about the Tower of London today. Mrs. Ichabod is learning about the English side of my family, on my mother's side.

Denominations "forget" their history, but that is really a trick for repudiating it.

The Missouri Synod omits its actual founders, who are Bishop Stephan and Loehe. Walther organized kidnapping, land theft, and a riot by his mob of selected followers, but he did not organize the migration to America. Loehe invited the Missouri people to join his group.

The official histories either omit all the important details or turn everyone except Walther into a demon from Hell. Reason? Everyone was wrong. For more examples of this, check the ELS and WELS hagiographies.

The Blessed Virgin Mother is not the only immaculate saint in denominational history.

When older, wiser pastors and theologians are forgotten, that is just another trick to foist foul doctrine and evil trickery upon the congregations.

Notice how literal has become a cuss-word in WELS, but no one calls the NNIV the Anything Goes paraphrase of the Bible, the gentlest description one can imagine for Murdoch's product. I found a feminist Bible in a Methodist library, dated back to the 1900s. WELS has caught up.

Years ago, The Lutheran Hymnal was a phrase spit out, especially in the context of--make a lip curl--"page 5 and 15". Example - "They are a page 5 and 15 congregation."

Gausewitz? Never heard of him. Repudiated.

Hoenecke? Heard of him, but ignored. Repudiated.

Corky? He was brain-dead. Only a brain-dead person could attack amalgamation and Church Growth in the same paper.

Slick Brenner? Legalist!

Martin Luther? Dust him off once a year, and then put him back in the crypt.

"Isn't that driver Paul Calvin Kelm, the oldest college chaplain in America?"