tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post1988278364606298813..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: VS Pietists... or perhaps evangelical style Lutherans today?Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-57385012119359657122013-09-27T08:33:18.076-05:002013-09-27T08:33:18.076-05:00I goofed. The EFC has pietist Lutheran roots, but...I goofed. The EFC has pietist Lutheran roots, but not Missouri Synod.David Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966977894876326659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-13692607434808389522013-09-27T08:27:39.608-05:002013-09-27T08:27:39.608-05:00Indeed one of the larger evangelical denominations...Indeed one of the larger evangelical denominations, The Evangelical Free Church, is a pietistic offshoot of the Missouri Synod, amongst others.David Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966977894876326659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-44114347847718964142013-09-27T08:25:00.207-05:002013-09-27T08:25:00.207-05:00There is a great difference between piety and piet...There is a great difference between piety and pietism. Learn the difference.<br /><br />Another illness or disease coming from Lutheran pietism shows up in evangelicalism. Go to most of the local evangelical churches, and you will encounter it.Janis Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947508427040251166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-58547524394216672232013-09-26T10:58:12.182-05:002013-09-26T10:58:12.182-05:00It is not a choice between piety and holiness on o...It is not a choice between piety and holiness on one hand and confidence in the concrete means of grace on another but the concrete that leads to the true piety of faith and works that proceed from the repentant heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-58153647061664023832013-09-26T09:23:36.685-05:002013-09-26T09:23:36.685-05:00The pietists within the LCMS are winning. The gro...The pietists within the LCMS are winning. The group of orthodox pastors and laymen is aging and shrinking. At what point do the remaining orthodox Lutherans realize that the war is lost and leave the LCMS. I am considering leaving, but am not quite sure where to go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-13477701873732633562013-09-26T06:38:04.883-05:002013-09-26T06:38:04.883-05:00Pastor
I see issues of Pietism you mentioned but A...Pastor<br />I see issues of Pietism you mentioned but A year or so you wrote about Holiness<br />then I recently saw this quote the daily devotions<br />"strive with every skill and word, to please your savior, Christ the Lord"<br />Vlaerius herberger<br />As my old teach rudy brandt told me Because of what God has done for me therefore, I try to serve<br />can you help me with this(holiness vs pietismBobAnoreply@blogger.com