Posted on 06/01/2013 9:16:54 AM PDT by rhema
As such, I am uncertain about many of the traditions and practices of the Catholics and the Orthodox branches, but their methods seem to be good for keeping people's thoughts on God and and the afterlife, and have a practical value of providing a constant tune up, along with spiritual protection and grace through constant contact and dialog.
Yep...He did say this time would come and we’re seeing it’s beginnings.
Interesting is we can see it, who have loved and enjoyed one nation under God.....those who have no understanding of a country under God cannot..they are full of “all individual truth is acceptable”.... and for that there is no debate...when there’s no debate... truth is no longer heard.
Yep...He did say this time would come and we’re seeing it’s beginnings.
Interesting is we can see it, who have loved and enjoyed one nation under God.....those who have no understanding of a country under God cannot..they are full of “all individual truth is acceptable”.... and for that there is no debate...when there’s no debate... truth is no longer heard.
if the only folks you can find to serve as bishops are given over to sinful habits then you have to do without bishops.
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Lord, I hope not. There isn’t another Lutheran option in town.
Dr. Martin Luther’s intent and desire was to reform and restore the church in which he served, not to form or establish a separate ecclesiastical structure. But it would not and could not abandon its heresies, its overblown bureaucracy and trappings borrowed from secular princes.
Not if President Matthew Harrison has anything to say about it.
Marriage and the Church
by Pastor Matthew Harrison, President of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Assuredly.
and so the Reformed Church was created . . .
Check out LCMS President Matthew Harrison’s article (post 69). No equivocation there.
Superb post. Right on target, my brother in Christ!
Thanks. I should have figured as much with as much reading as I’ve been doing. I must say that I’ve found that LCMS Lutherans take the Bible and Christianity seriously.
Ok, who forgot to lock the sacristry? Looks like someone has gotten into the communion wine, again.
It’s coming there too. They are just a few years behind ELCA. Plenty of Dr. Guy Erwin’s kind serving as LCMS pastors — just protected and covered up by the organization.
I didn't know. Discouraging.
3/27/2013 – The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod President, Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, sent a letter to the Boy Scouts of America explaining the seriousness of the potential membership policy change and described the “crisis of conscience” that may force congregations to reconsider their support of the organization. Excerpt below …
“… (A) “challenge for our churches in allowing the decision to remain local rather than national lays in the fact that some communities have larger and more politically active gay and lesbian groups. In these communities, the local Boy Scout Council may impose the acceptance of homosexual scouts and scout leaders upon troops sponsored by the local congregation. Should this occur, the Boy Scouts effectively will have superseded the authority of our church teaching, of the local pastor and of the congregation — perhaps even placing us in legal jeopardy.” In the letter, Harrison also pointed out that this policy change could mean that “scouts from troops sponsored by congregations of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod potentially would be interacting with openly homosexual scouts and scout leaders at regional and national scouting activities….”
That cross atop Central (ELCA) Lutheran had stood unscathed for 99 years.
How fitting that Cental Lutheran's 2nd reading for tomorrow is this: SECOND READING Beware of contrary gospels -- Galatians 1:1–12
Paul writes:
Paul an apostle — sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead —
2and all the members of God’s family who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
4who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
5to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel
— 7not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed!
9As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!
10Am I now seeking human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Aye, very well timed, that pericope.
As was the reading from the pastoral Epistle (1 Timothy 3) quoted by me upstream. which was the appointed weekday Epistle for this past Wednesday.
Yes, there is a “different Gospel” being proclaimed called “radical inclusion” meaning that Jesus loves all people just as they are (unless they happen to be gun owners, capitalists, or “homophobes”).
Well that’s hardly the case. This chap weaseled in perfidiously...
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