Gregory Schulz on the LCMS: Anatomy of an Implosion

Dr. Gregory Schulz joins the podcast to discuss the social justice movement and its consequences at Concordia university and beyond.

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[chrisreimers]

I appreciate Dr. Schultz. I was a teacher in an LCMS school many years ago, and my wife and I left the church/school when the congregation broke its own rules in a non Biblical manner in our opinions. I'm saddened to hear that things are unwinding in much of the Synod.

[mollygardens]

Thank you for this interview. Dr. Schulz is so careful and well spoken. This has been one of my favorite interviews, Jon, and I’m not even Lutheran.

[EmDubbs]

John, can you get together the following LCMS guys: Gregory Schulz, Dr. Adam Koontz, and Ryan Turnipseed? That would be a really interested virtual roundtable chat.

[darrelljackson]

Wonderful conversation again. Thank you.

[betty]

Sad to see such faithful professors being cast aside for progress=social justice, sin. Thank you, Jon, for platforming Professor Schultz. Prayers for fast cold relief!

[MichaelWittrock-krgy]

As a retired LC-MS Pastor who attended CTSFW I totally agree with Dr Shultz. I also recommend Dr. Scaer's book about the Seminex era. He was my first Confessions class at Ft. Wayne in 1998!

[paulah]

I have a Lutheran background and thank my church teaching me salvation. I didn't totally understand salvation until the Jesus people movement and then was born ( born again). I left the ELCA during college years. My husband and I were members of the Evangelical Free Church of America for 36 years and brought our kids up in that denomination. After my husband passed I went back to Lutheran ....the Association of Free Lutheran Congregation, a nice blend of Lutheran and EFCA. Ultimately, I've realized denominations as corporations is what leads us away from faith, but Christ leads us to faith, grace, salvation, his Word, to the glory of God. Thank you for this conversation.

[tjbodnar]

Thanks for this Jon. I was a student of Dr Schulz for Intro to Philosophy at Wisconsin Lutheran College about 20 years ago. I always looked forward to his lectures. He is very enjoyable to listen to and engage with. I'll be putting his book on my reading list. I found out about his situation with Concordia Wisconsin through this channel. I'm an elder in an Ev. Free Church in southeast WI. The church I attend is thankfully not woke Marxist but I know this evil has infiltrated the affiliation of Ev. Free Churches and our seminary as well. Our church stands with Dr Schulz in this battle for the truth and will be praying for him.

[amo]

I appreciate the very precise way this man speaks.

[theelizabethan]

Great conversation here, with an outstanding guest!

[unit]

As a convert to the LCMS, this and the way the Large Catechism controversy have been handled are incredibly black pilling. I continue to pray for my communion and humbly ask all of my brothers and sisters in the LCMS and other church bodies to do the same.

[Sheraleeable]

Grateful to hear Cultural Marxism defined as “evil”. Wherever its philosophy is allowed, death follows. I appreciate the analogy of the 3rd line of defense against it; mature battle hardened believers, who will never retreat or compromise!
To God be the Glory🔥🙏🏻

[patcandelora]

This is happening everywhere in the Church and no confession or denomination is immune!

[michaellautermilch]

54:45 - bookmarking for personal use, I need to listen to this part like 3 more times. Good stuff!

[Gary-yors]

How about the title of president of the congregation? The lcms presidents job is to make sure that districts and congregations remain faithful to Lutheran doctrine and book of Concord in direct support of Scripture and the word of God.

[James-vo]

As a university professor, I am deeply saddened that Concordia lost this wonderful professor who has done so much to instill a Christian worldview in our young people in the LCMS. Shame on the administration of Concordia.

[Zhought]

The LCMS has many wonderful and faithful churches, but down in the Florida/Georgia area it has many church that would play at being Baptists/Non-denominational in appearance and practice, and have ingested a lot of the sicknesses of American Evangelicalism. We tried a couple, but ended up in a Continuing Anglican body. God have mercy.

[jamesbarksdale]

Dr Schultz' concern over the misuse and abuse of language is very real, certainly in culture at large, and increasingly in our denominations, institutions, and congregations. If we can't identify the meaning of words we will soon be going the way of Russia in 1917. Even prior to that doublethink was paving the way for revolution, and it is in the West today.

[JesusPeopleSF]

Just before the 11 minute 26 second mark, the interviewee says that the church should never use corporate models for itself, but rather the terminology of Jesus, "my body". The problem with that logic is that he thinks tinkering with the words is going to make apostate people faithful. Which you really have is a fallen institution that no longer wants to follow Jesus, but still use the title church. I am far happier with them using corporate-everything because it is very outwardly clear what is going on inwardly.

[JamesRiddle_Christ_is_King]

JD Greear is an adjunct professor at SEBTS