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Joshua J Radke's avatar

I pray that the faithful remnant in 'Missouri' are preparing for the reality it may be GOD's will for LCMS, LCC, WELS, et al. to finally have their lamps removed from their place of prominence on the Lampstand, as happened to the Church of Jerusalem. The future of orthodox, confessing Lutheran heritage in North America may well be the LCMS's English-Iowa-Dakota-Wyoming districts + the AALC. GOD's gracious providence for the establishing of Luther Classical College may be the mark that GOD is signaling this.

Also: beware of the bevy of adjectives being formed from nouns using the '-al' suffix, e.g. "Reformational", "Confessional", "Biblical", "Missional", "Liturgical", etc. In English syntax, the '-al' suffix indicates a "likeness" or "relation" to the noun, which preserves a certain degree of connection to the identity indicated by the noun (usually for branding/communication purposes), but does NOT necessarily indicate faithful adherence to what that noun fully represents.

By contrast, traditional Anglican bodies that broke from the wayward episcopal denominations & communions do not use '-al' to suffix their identifiers, they use '-ing' to indicate ongoing faithfulness to the heritage of the Reformations; e.g. 'Continuing Anglicans', 'Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans'.

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Keepers of the Tree's avatar

I pray that we in Missouri are able to hold the line and continue to move (albeit slowly) in the right direction. Deo Velente!

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