David Neff and the New Lutherans

David Neff reports on the recent congress in Columbus OH that formed a new Lutheran body:

In summary, the theologians who spoke at Lutheran CORE’s free theological conference saw crisis of authority in the church. The crisis resulted from an abandonment of the combined authority of canon, creed, and church—or less alliteratively, Scripture, a normative set of teaching that guide scriptural interpretation, and authorized leaders charged with faithfully handing on the faith. By looking to the self, to love, to the world’s agenda, to atomizing biblical scholarship, to any god but the jealous God of Scripture, the church is bound to collapse of its own pretentiousness. By submitting itself to canon, creed, and catholicity, it can renew its mission in the world, recover its passion for holiness, and speak faithfully about the true God.