Laity attempts to use Matthew 18 to address school curriculum, promotion of Islam, LGBTQ+ affirmation, and women leading and teaching in chapel services.
I pray you keep this article up indefinitely. There is a tendency to raise the issue and then seek to delete all trace because of some supposed secret resolution. People will look back and not realize what the actual state of the LCMS is or how things proceeded because we whitewash our own history in real time to give a false sense of who we are and what is happening. God help those in the future who seek lessons from what was happening in the LCMS and how it was being handled; they'll be without any real resource.
An impressive article that keeps to prudent, yet transparent presentation of process, alleged facts, and unnamed actors. I appreciate the delineation of two differinng means of procedure. I was a pastor in another denomination (with a detailed national "rule book" which failed to restrain lawlessness) for years and have been an LCMS layman for about three years. Polity IS very important so we can go about our business delegated by Christ without constant wrangling with the " noisy spirits". Thank you.
What a tangled web of LCMS dissidents — Jeff Kloha, Dean of the splinter seminary "Center for Missional and Pastoral Leadership" (CMPL) is an associate pastor at this parish as of June 1 of this year.
That seems considerably more damning than the other evidence presented which, while definitely very sketchy and bad sounding, still seems like it may admit of a variety of explanations or interpretations. But a pastor in an obscene stole is a impossible to misinterpret.
I pray you keep this article up indefinitely. There is a tendency to raise the issue and then seek to delete all trace because of some supposed secret resolution. People will look back and not realize what the actual state of the LCMS is or how things proceeded because we whitewash our own history in real time to give a false sense of who we are and what is happening. God help those in the future who seek lessons from what was happening in the LCMS and how it was being handled; they'll be without any real resource.
The article will not be removed. It is now part of the public record.
An impressive article that keeps to prudent, yet transparent presentation of process, alleged facts, and unnamed actors. I appreciate the delineation of two differinng means of procedure. I was a pastor in another denomination (with a detailed national "rule book" which failed to restrain lawlessness) for years and have been an LCMS layman for about three years. Polity IS very important so we can go about our business delegated by Christ without constant wrangling with the " noisy spirits". Thank you.
What a tangled web of LCMS dissidents — Jeff Kloha, Dean of the splinter seminary "Center for Missional and Pastoral Leadership" (CMPL) is an associate pastor at this parish as of June 1 of this year.
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Is the trans pride photo at the bottom from the church in question?
Yes.
That seems considerably more damning than the other evidence presented which, while definitely very sketchy and bad sounding, still seems like it may admit of a variety of explanations or interpretations. But a pastor in an obscene stole is a impossible to misinterpret.
The full evidence package may eventually be posted. It will shock even the most normie LCMS Lutheran.