Daystar is consumed with a burning zeal for confessional fidelity.
Uh-huh.
The Aardvark shares an interesting intercept from the ultra-secret Daystar network mailing list from someone who is apparently unaware that the official language of the Lutheran Confessions is German, not English.
Its concern for confessional fidelity is touching. Interesting, though, that this moving paean to the importance of the Confessions refers to those who disagree with its author and support the Readers' Edition, apparently without even a second thought, as "the confessionalists."
What does that make the Daystar crowd, and the Readers Edition's critics, hmmm? And does anybody buy this "concern for the confessional fidelity" business for even a moment? Aren't the Daystar folks the ones who think it's misguided to be too concerned about Lutheran confessional identity?
The Daystar crowd is criticizing what by all accounts is at the very least a grammatically valid alternate translation of the text- one characterized by a former EKiD pastor I know as "mild" compared to the way a contemporary German edition he's familiar with renders Luther's words, and far more in keeping with Luther's theology as expressed in all of his other writings- and then accusing the confessionalists of being politically motivated for not sticking with the "approved" wording that makes Dave Benke look good!
Just who is it who is trying to cook the Confessions for political purposes here, anyway?
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I'll bet most members of most congregations wouldn't know what Daystar is. But we know the value of the Readers' Edition, and what its ready availability has promised. Its value and promise are to us and for us--the rank-and-file confessionalists.
All the arcane background shenanigans may be off the humble congregant's radar, as they should be. But now, it seems Daystar has, albeit unknwoingly, taken the fight to the individual confessionalist, and thus to the congregations--the masses.
The little guys likes their book, and don't want it threatened. The little guys simply want to know, and not about who's-doing-what, but what Christ says, what Christ means when He says it, and know that Luther and his confessionalists were accurate and faithful.
We don't want another Reformation, either bloody or wordy or in Synod boardrooms and backrooms. We want what we thought we already had: Christ...the Word...clear and unabridged and *uncomplicated* by human intervention or inventions.
I don't think the little guys will stand idly by and let this word go away.
Time- and past time- for those "little guys" to speak up!