For those concerned about the direction of the LCMS, Rev. Wallace Schulz has just written a lengthy piece on "It is Written" titled "The LCMS - Its Past And Future." Click Here.
I have read only sections of this paper so far, but Dr. Schultz is dead-on. His observations resonate well with my own as a pastor for 20 years, especially as I have struggled with the loss and drift of people from membership due to outside influences and even from foreign influences within our own churches. As a denomination we are in danger of morphing into a fundamentalist mainline denomination and losing our Lutheran identity and methodology. I hope that people are listening to his warnings. They come from a man who has the history to know where the synod has been and thus where it is going.
"To the Scribes, the Pharisees and the hypocrites, the heresy hunters that want to find a little mote of illegal doctrine in some Christian's eye and poke that little mote out of their eye when they've got the whole forest in their own lives and in their own eyes, I say to hell with you!" Paul Crouch.
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I have read only sections of this paper so far, but Dr. Schultz is dead-on. His observations resonate well with my own as a pastor for 20 years, especially as I have struggled with the loss and drift of people from membership due to outside influences and even from foreign influences within our own churches. As a denomination we are in danger of morphing into a fundamentalist mainline denomination and losing our Lutheran identity and methodology. I hope that people are listening to his warnings. They come from a man who has the history to know where the synod has been and thus where it is going.
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