Download Audio Instruct and Guide God’s People in Worship, Faith, and Life (2:1–4:16) To “fight the good fight of the faith” requires more than opposing and excluding false teachers. Timothy’s faith- battle, the pastor’s, the church’s is not only defensive. It is also necessary that people know how they “ought to conduct themselves in God’s […]
Download Audio Opening Greeting (Chapter 1:verses 1 and 2) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, To Timothy my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. We need not turn to the […]
Download Audio The WELS Mission for the Visually Impaired presents The People’s Bible – 1 Timothy, by Armin W. Schuetze, published by Northwestern Publishing House, Copyright 1991. EDITOR’S PREFACE The People’s Bible is just what the name implies—a Bible for the people. It includes the complete text of the Holy Scriptures in the popular New […]
Download Audio In a 1996 essay presented to pastoral conferences in the South Atlantic District, former synod president Carl Mischke remarked on the oft-repeated adage that “the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is always 20 years behind Missouri.” The person was usually referring to “something in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod that he didn’t like” and […]
Download Audio Following the 1954 Synodical Conference convention, Julian Anderson wrote that most discouraging “was not so much the lack of progress” but “the obvious indifference of spirit displayed by the delegates of the Missouri and Slovak Synods.” As discussions continued “it became increasingly apparent that the two groups looked upon the Scriptures in a […]
Download Audio Conclusion “Are we forever to be isolated,” asked Theodore Graebner in March 1950, “forever to deny fellowship to Lutherans who teach as we do?” Recalling the Wisconsin Synod’s criticisms of the 1938 Union Resolutions and anticipating Wisconsin’s rejection of the Common Confession, Graebner charged that for the past dozen years “not one good […]
Download Audio “The Grace That Has Spared Us” Asked in 1997 what indicators of the Missouri Synod’s transformation became apparent to them, one respondent cited Missouri’s toleration of a “liberal interpretation of Scripture,” and another mentioned “the ‘liberal’ theology of many on the faculty of the St. Louis seminary.” Changes in Missouri “came with a […]
Download Audio In the synod of Walther, Pieper, and Engelder By late 1961, Scharlemann had received many letters both sup- porting and condemning his views. In the Milwaukee area, widespread rumors had Scharlemann resigning his teaching position in St. Louis. President Behnken wrote Scharlemann “a very kind letter advising and suggesting (not demanding or asking) […]
Download Audio Missouri’s official response, however, was that the Affirmation “was not charged with any doctrinal error.” No modification of its doctrinal content was required, although some observers feared that certain phrases of the Affirmation failed sufficiently to exclude doctrinal errors and required clarification. Wisconsin remained unconvinced that changes in terminology alone would render the […]
Download Audio Yet, during the 1950s, Concordia experienced a quiet, unheralded “revolution,” as some professors investigated and embraced methods of biblical interpretation practiced for decades at many other seminaries but previously unknown at St. Louis. footnote: According to one researcher, “Nearly all the evidence points to the fact that throughout the 1940s the historical-grammatical method […]