May 11, 2007
Another Lutheran Popes—I Need the Large Polo Mallet*
I ask you to read carefully what this man has to say. We must take to heart his critique, even though most of my readers are not members of the ELCA.
With that said: I would like someone to explain to me how anyone can reconcile himself to the notion of indulgences, which remain a rank perversion of the very notion of grace. And how does he reconcile himself to prayer after prayer in which the Blessed Mother of Our Lord is held up as the intercessor between sinful men and God Almighty?
And yet, more and more Lutherans, not to mention other Protestants, don their water wings and cross the river Tiber. (I have been to Rome; I can only hope the river is cleaner now...)
I was alerted to this event by a post on a Romanist site.
What must we do to stop the bleeding? Only one thing: Preach the gospel of unmerited love, grace, justification—and sanctification; administer the sacraments; bring Christ to a fallen world.
Our Lord asks for no more. And even if we remain a tiny minority, even within the so-called Lutheran world, so long as we are faithful to our calling, that is enough.
"I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
"Only 7,000, Lord? It's a big world!"
Obviously, that was enough.
*Special thanks to Mr. W. Allen for the reference.
With that said: I would like someone to explain to me how anyone can reconcile himself to the notion of indulgences, which remain a rank perversion of the very notion of grace. And how does he reconcile himself to prayer after prayer in which the Blessed Mother of Our Lord is held up as the intercessor between sinful men and God Almighty?
And yet, more and more Lutherans, not to mention other Protestants, don their water wings and cross the river Tiber. (I have been to Rome; I can only hope the river is cleaner now...)
I was alerted to this event by a post on a Romanist site.
What must we do to stop the bleeding? Only one thing: Preach the gospel of unmerited love, grace, justification—and sanctification; administer the sacraments; bring Christ to a fallen world.
Our Lord asks for no more. And even if we remain a tiny minority, even within the so-called Lutheran world, so long as we are faithful to our calling, that is enough.
"I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
"Only 7,000, Lord? It's a big world!"
Obviously, that was enough.
*Special thanks to Mr. W. Allen for the reference.
