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| The Illinois ELCA bishop did not appreciate this graphic. Faith in Moline sent it "by mistake" and apologized. The bishop explained their departure as mental illness. |
A new Lutheran seminary was promoting itself on Facebook, so I asked if any of the faculty taught justification by faith. The moderator said, "All of them do."
I looked over the list and wrote back, "Jack Kilcrease does not."
I received a private message from the moderator saying, "I run 12 businesses and I won't allow ad hominem attacks."
I responded, "His rejection of justification by faith is a fact, not a personal attack. You do not know what ad hominem means."
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I was corresponding with a Moline classmate, who mentioned her mother's church leaving ELCA. It turned out to be Faith in Moline, a church I walked by on the way to high school. (I walked two miles in the snow all winter, and it was uphill both ways.)
I took a big interest in that situation and created the graphic above for them, since the bishop was using personal attacks while accusing them of violating the Eighth Commandment. One of their leaders sent it to the bishop's office "by mistake" and got an enraged response. He and I found it endlessly amusing, since the same bishop was so busy undermining a faithful pastor.
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All apostate denominations work the same way. When Pastor Lange in Columbus was taking St. Paul German Village out of the ALC, for Scriptural reasons, the denomination kept wondering in correspondence about Lange's health.
I have heard from several Wisconsin Synod exiles who got the mental health gambit from the same thugs who support Ski and other reprobates. I told them they were blessed to be away from such leaders, but I know those accusations leave lasting wounds.
After enough experience with apostasy, the faithful experience the same crafts and assaults recycled by synod drones, learned from their Father Below.
Not much is required to enrage the functionaries. Simply questioning them (past the naive inquiry) is an outrage and must be punished. Standing up to their corruption, errors, lies, and cover-ups is an automatic excommunication. That is why they say, "Write a letter." They want written evidence of the terrible crimes "hurting the face" of Holy Mother Sect. I borrowed "hurting the face" from Gaylin Schmelling, whose conscience is easily affected by the hopes of a promotion.
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The extent of denial still intrigues me. Lutheran leaders spend their lives at war against Luther and justification by faith, but they explode with rage when that demonic quest is exposed. If their cause is so noble, why do they deny it? They must be ashamed of their actions and words. They should be.
I was reading a book on Paul's letters. One paragraph mentioned his use of faith 200 times, but the UOJ stylists want us to understand that Paul taught justification without faith.
The book described Paul separating mankind in two camps - in Adam, and in Christ. Obviously, to most people, the difference is faith. Those who trust in Christ for their salvation are "in Christ." Yet Jay Webber wants to say that every cannibal, polytheist, and atheist is "in Christ." Shouting "in Christ" does not make it so.
Mequon is so perverted that they mark justification by faith passages as MISLEADING! so the little ones do not persist in their adherence to justification by faith.
The results are all around, from Joel Hochmuth to Ski to Jeff Gunn.
Alas, the sermon I am posting from Luther tonight is packed with positive references to faith. I fear for Mequon if anyone reads that sermon. They may have to fire their inept and inebriated faculty and hire some Lutherans.
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| Mequon, beware. |