CCM Verax Appeals to Lutheran World Leaders for Support








News Releases and Information Bulletins CCM Verax Launch on Wednesday, 07 November 2001 CCM Verax Publicizes ELCA Ecumenical Grand Deception ELCA Parishes Informed of Ecumenical Grand Deception CCM Verax "Epiphany Email Extravaganza" CCM Becomes More Controversial CCM Verax Appeals to Lutheran World Leaders for Support Shock as ELCA Proposes to Drop Reformation Day Disbelief as Lutherans Abandon Reformation Day Further Objections to ELCA Cancelling Reformation Day International Lutheran Community Responding to US Lutheran Ecumneical "Grand Deception" CCM Verax International Newsletter - Lent 2003 Edition (published) Proosed Public Debate at 10th Assembly of LWF LWF General Secretary Noko involved in ELCA Ecumenical Scandal ELCA Moral Leader in "Mitergate" Ecumenical Scandal ELCA Mitergate Scandal - Justification by Historic Episcopacy ELCA Moral Leader Runs from Mitergate Scandal Debate ELCA Mitergate Debate - Call to Lutherans Worldwide For Help Call for Suspension of ELCA Membership in Lutheran World Federation Sydney Diocese Anglicans vs. ELCA Mitergate Lutherans The ELCA and its new "Hypocrite Episcopate" ELCA Makes Historic Ecumenical U-Turn ELCA / LWF Perpetuate Fallacies about “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” (JDDJ) CCM Verax Communiqué to LWF Member Churches		Printer Version CCM VERAX PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Date: 08 April 2002 Title: ECUMENICAL GRAND DECEPTION - CCM VERAX APPEALS TO LUTHERAN WORLD LEADERS FOR SUPPORT (Au Gres, Michigan, USA) At the end of September 2001, leaders and officials in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) were informed of the fundamentally flawed nature of Called to Common Mission (CCM), the ecumenical agreement between the ELCA and the Episcopal Church in the USA. At that time, ELCA leaders were also asked to take decisive action to address the miscarriage of basic Lutheran principles embodied in CCM. The response by ELCA leaders during the six months since then has been less than encouraging. Most ELCA leaders have not replied to the detailed research presented to them regarding the defective nature of CCM. Of those leaders who have responded, none has chosen to challenge either CCM or the way in which CCM was adopted. The issue of dispute has been the requirement in CCM that the ELCA adopt an "historic episcopate" as a condition for unity with the Episcopal Church. CCM claims that the Lutheran Reformers expressed their "deep desire" in the Lutheran statements of faith (Confessions) to have structures like the Anglican "historic episcopate." CCM Verax has shown that this claim is false and was known to be false when CCM was drafted. As the ELCA has few, if any, internal checks and balances, CCM Verax on behalf of many US Lutherans has opted to take decisive action regarding CCM. In a letter dated 12th March 2002, CCM Verax issued an appeal to member churches of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) for their support and intervention. In that letter, CCM Verax has asked LWF leaders: Firstly, to study the nature of the grand deception in CCM as detailed in materials available on the CCM Verax web site. Secondly, to encourage the ELCA leadership to suspend CCM until CCM itself and the methods used to obtain its passage can be fully investigated by an independent arbitrator. Finally, to prepare themselves to assist US Lutherans who, being ecumenical in a Protestant sense, feel obliged to form a new Lutheran church in the USA which is true to the unity principle of Christ alone as expressed in Article VII of the Augsburg Confession. CCM Verax (verax is from Latin meaning "speaking truthfully") is a newly established organization dedicated to exposing the grand deception in Called to Common Mission (CCM), the full-communion agreement between the ELCA and the Episcopal Church in the USA. Further details are available on the CCM Verax web site at: http://www.ccmverax.org/LWAppeal.htm For additional information, contact: Pastor Mark D. Menacher, PhD CCM Verax Administrator PO Box 26 Au Gres, MI 48703-0026 USA +1-989-876-2764 (home) +1-989-876-7415 (church) http://www.ccmverax.org mdmenacher@centurytel.net mdmenacher@ccmverax.org CCM Verax Administrator Note: At this point in time, CCM Verax is administered by Pastor Mark D. Menacher, PhD. Pastor Menacher is a graduate of Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D in historical and systematic theology from the University of Manchester, England. While in the United Kingdom, he served a pastorate in the Lutheran Church in Great Britain (LCiGB). In addition to his pastoral duties, Pastor Menacher also served on the LCiGB's Executive Committee and as the LCiGB's ecumenical officer. Pastor Menacher's wife is from Wales, and she is an Anglican (Episcopalian).
Editor: Pastor Mark D. Menacher, PhD, CCM Verax, 13823 Olive Grove Place , Poway, CA 92064 (USA) +1 619-463-6633 (church) e-mail: mdmenacher@ccmverax.org website: http://www.ccmverax.org