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	Jim Strawn Challenges LC Poll, Hopes To Clear Up Issue
Home For Members For Pastors/Leaders Helpful Secular Sites Contact Us Suggest New Links Our Purpose Advertise on L/C Frequently Asked	Since when is the validity of any doctrinal position established by its popularity? A less Lutheran notion I can hardly imagine. Still, for what it is worth, David Benke, uninvited, chose what he loved, namely, notoriety. In doing so, he took an action, which a Lutheran understanding of the church has never allowed -ever. It was not the hardest but the easiest thing for him to do. He was like the teenager convinced protestations of love are sufficient grounds for intimacy -and anyone disagreeing just doesn't understand love as does he. Now if you want hard, consider Lutheran pastors all across the country who eschewed such participation when invited by people they must live with and whose families they knew! As to Schulz, he took a position that may cost him enormously. He did so in the face of tremendous pressure knowing he would be seen as a crusty mean-spirited Neanderthal. But all his east-European work demonstrates to anyone willing to look where his loyalties and heart are. Meanwhile, Benke supporters and Benke himself continue to go to the secular press -most recently on O'Reilly, which, of course, agrees with them. One can hardly imagine why any Lutheran should care what O'Reilly, essentially a Catholic universalist, thinks of syncretism when the gospel itself, if understood rightly, would be absurd to him. Jim Strawn