National Walther Conference VIII

Christian News, Vol. 49, No. 10, 3/7/11

National Walther Conference VIII
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12

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What Did Walther Do When He Was President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod?

What Would Walther Do If He Were President of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Today?

Would Walther Promote a 21st Century Formula of Concord and Twenty-First Century
Reformation as the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation Approaches?

What Would Walther Do About Church Growth and Family Life in the LCMS Today?

What Would Walther Do and Say About the Papacy and Roman Catholic Church Today?

What Would Walther Do About Those on the LCMS Clergy Roster who:
a. Support Evolution
b. Deny the inerrancy of the Bible.
c. Deny justification by faith alone in the merits of Christ and claim that Muslims, Jews and other non-Christians can get to heaven without saving faith in the merits of Jesus Christ.
d. Claim the LCMS clergy roster should be open for those who promote abortion and homosexuals serving as pastors.
e. Support the ordination of women to the pastoral ministry.
f. Promote such destructive notions of the higher critics of the Bible as the J-E-D-P source hypothesis.

What Would Walther Do

About Defending the Rights of Laymen and Congregations and the Move Toward Hierarchicalism in the LCMS?

What Would Walther Do About “Bureaucratitis” in the Church?

Would he support full time district presidents and paying some church officials and executives several times more than the salary of the average pastor?

What Would Walther Do About the LCMS’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations?

What Would Walther Do About LCMS Sister Churches Remaining in the Lutheran World Federation which Includes the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The LWF supports abortion, homosexuality, universalism, and demythologizing the Bible.

What Would Walther Do About the Promotion of the English Standard Version of the Bible in the LCMS today?

What Would Walther Do About the Promotion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the LCMS today and referring to him as “a confessional Lutheran” and perhaps the greatest Lutheran since Martin Luther.

Speaker and possible debaters to be announced when the entire program is completed. Many consider Concordia Seminary, St. Louis where Walther served as first president, the ideal site for a celebrating of Walther’s birth at Walther Conference VIII just a few days after Walther’s 200th birthday. Walther was born on October 24, 1811. He died May 7, 1887. Christian News has prepared a special plaque commemorating Walther’s 200th birthday. It is featured on page one. A 20x28 inch lithograph of C.F.W. Walther printed in 1887 suitable for framing is available from Christian News for $2.00 plus $2.00 postage.

Speakers at the Walther Conference VII were Matthew Harrison, John Wohlrabe, Fred Baue, Martin Noland and Todd Wilken. Speakers at previous Walther Conferences included Kurt Marquart, Don Matzat, Congressman William Dannemeyer, LaMarr Blecker, Governor Albert Quie, Daniel Preus, Rolf Preus, Jack Cascione, William Bischoff, Norm Dierking, Al Loeschman, Robert Hill, Louis Brighton, William Schmacher, Dale Meyer, Sam Hoard, David Menton, Jack Baumgarn, Tom Bye, Robin Fish, Edwin Suelflow, Timothy Otten, Erich von Fange, William Koch, Robert Doggett, Tom Pfotenhauer, George Wollenburg, Charles Hendrickson, Roger Eigenfield, and others. Neil Schmidt has been the moderator for all of the Walther Conferences. He served on the Board of Regents at the St. Louis seminary for 13 years.