Session 1: Pr. Bryan Wolfmueller, "The Obligation and Temptation of Dealing with False Teaching", at the Brothers of John the Steadfast Conference in Naperville, February 20-21, 2015.
33:55 "to pray for the repentance of false teachers and to trust that the Lord who created the universe can also change their hearts and make them one with us." Amen.
This is wonderful. I was going to a bible study (not Lutheran). That was telling me I had to get out there and evangelize everyone in my community when I already have a full plate being a daughter of an elderly ailing mother, a mother of a teenager, and a very stressed out husband and home to care for. Talk about laying religious burdens on men’s backs. Thank you so much for your teaching on vocation. Needless to say I quit that bible study and am sticking with the Lutheran bible study at my church.
I don't believe that this shouldn't be taught to church members, who don't know or understand the issue. Even a published work to address this issue as well as others that can effect members, and build their faith. I support what the Pastor is saying 100%.
Oh wow, this is a TOUGH one for me. I have been praying for truth for the past 5 years or so (earnestly) and begging God to show me where I belong. As a former JW who leaned toward Baptist after leaving JW - this is TOUGH....I am still searching but wow...I don't know. I have Matthew 28:19 SCREAMING in my ear everyday.
A Lutheran pastor in Waterloo Iowa told me he believes that if you're a good person you will go to heaven. I was wondering if universalism is taught by most Lutheran pastors?
@Alex Lancaster I'm not sure if he was ELCA, but after researching it a little more I found that the pope teaches it. I feel sorry for people who are taught this and are going to hell because they were deceived.
The problem lies in the question, "What is false doctrine?" It used to be that it was false doctrine to believe Galileo's concept of the solar system, to allow women to vote in church meetings, to have a nursery for small children during worship, etc. "False doctrine" is not always what we have been taught traditionally.
Wow. I appreciate the risk of heterodoxy being explained...a word never used once in my Merican Mega-church! I have been around "Life long Lutheran, but...," for a few years now. I fear you LLL,b crew do not understand the treasure your stubborn, pig headededness has left you from the radical reformation that followed shortly after Luther... You guys have Christ crucified for your sins as a gift...why be Lutheran?...grace and the treasure of God's inspired scripture!
I can't say I entirely disagree with Pastor Wolfmueller, but some of the logic of his argument that people should stick strictly to their vocations would have lost us the Battle for the Bible in the early seventies in the Missouri Synod. There were some pastors that stood for God's truth, but the resistance to the higher critics was largely lay led. A lot of allegedly confessional pastors stayed out of the battle out of cowardice because they didn't want to be snubbed by colleagues.
When the Seminary ITSELF is the biting dog, then we're in a teal crisis. Laity and Springfield clergy rightly worked together in new temporary vocations to rescue the child and kick the dog
Something LLL,B crew are not as experienced with the risk of crisis and ending up with a leader instead of trusting Jesus and the need of pastors...an important vocation not to be changed with vocation of Vision casting leader
All Scripture is prompted by false teachings - but we are not to do anything but pray if it's outside our vocation against such teaching? No preaching the Word? Just the status quo. The priesthood of all believers only amounts to the diurnal duties of state. Luther left the monastery (his station) - and was told by the Pontiff it wasn't his place (vocation) to contradict the teachings of the Church. Pastor Wolfmeuller's whole talk is so incoherent, matters of state matter very little, at least in his case.
