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'Logia' Contributing
Editor Responds to Reclaim News
By: Rev. Jack Cascione |
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Reclaim News received the following reply from one of "Logia's" 41
contributing editors.
"Jack, LOGIA does not say an 'Amen' to Scaer's views. LOGIA is 'a
free
conference in print' as it states in the front of every issue. Why
don't
you write a response to the article and ask for your response to be
printed?"
Reclaim News retracts its observation that "Logia says 'Amen' to Dr.
Scaer's
article which we recently reviewed. Many of the contributing editors
may
agree with Dr. Scaer, but all of them do not agree with Dr. Scaer, nor does
"Logia" endorse his views as a publication.
This cannot be said for the Fort Wayne faculty that refuses to endorse voter
supremacy as the official polity of LCMS congregations.
The progressive minded Dr. Scaer takes us back to Rome when he writes:
"Youth can no more be bottled up in a regime of exercise and diet than
the
theology of one age can be carried over to the present. In this case
we may
have hindered resolving an issue, which divided confessional-minded
Lutherans from the mid-nineteenth century, as Sasse noted already in 1961.
Of course this is exactly what happened in Resolution 7-17a."
Scaer admits he does not agree with the structure on which the LCMS was
founded when he objects to Resolution 7-17a with the same logic we heard
from Seminex.
We would like the Fort Wayne faculty to tell us how Synod is
"Church" when
the LCMS cannot baptize, consecrate the Lord's Supper, or administer the
Office of the Keys. "Churchly" does not equal
"Church" no more than
"Christly" equals Christ.
The Fort Wayne Faculty is invited to give their wholehearted support to the
following quotations:
"Here [Matt. 18:15-18] Christ clearly gives the supreme jurisdiction to
the
church or congregation, as our Confessions say, and he desires that a sinner
in a congregation be regarded as a heathen and a tax collector and that the
dreadful judgment of excommunication be pronounced on him only after
manifold private admonitions and the public admonition before and by the
congregation have proved themselves fruitless, so that the congregation has
unanimously decided to excommunicate him through its pastor."
("Church and
Ministry" C.F.W. Walther, 1851, CPH 1987, 322)
"For when our Savior Christ says, 'Tell it to the church,' He by these
words
commands the church [local congregation] to be the supreme judge. From
this
it follows that not only one state, namely that of the bishops, but also
other pious and learned persons from all states are to be appointed as
judges and have decisive votes." ("Church and Ministry"
C.F.W. Walther,
1851, CPH 1987, -page 343)
"This is to be understood in the sense not only that the church has the
power to excommunicate impenitent sinners but also that the congregation has
the supreme authority in all church matters such as reproof, church
discipline, divisions, judging doctrine, and appointing pastors, to mention
only these things." ("Church and Ministry." C.F.W. Walther,
1851, CPH 1987,
page 343)
"For when a certain school principal in Brunswick held an erroneous
doctrine
and among other things also rejected the Formula of Concord, Chemnitz
presented the matter to the whole congregation as to the final and supreme
judge." ("Church and Ministry" C.F.W. Walther, 1851, CPH
1987, Page 343)
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July 7 , 2003 |