Arthur M. Casci Testimony

[aron]

Originally Posted by Amcasci

Greetings,
This is Art Casci. I am stunned that my ancient is still in circulation. Just this morning I was contacted about your blog. It has been over 40 years since the "movement" and probably 20 since I have given it a thought. I will observe this blog an see if I have anything to offer. I am a pastor in the lutheran church missouri synod (the orthodox branch) and my walk wiyh christ has certainly taken a few turns since the movement days.

Interestingly enough, after the lee movement I was also part of the new covenant apostolic order for a while. I knew those men Braun etc. I was in Mansfield ohio and Ray Nethery who was a member of the ncao departed from them and I stuck with ray for a while but eventually to the lcms.

Feel free to contact me but I don't know how much help I can be.

Art

Hello Art,

Thanks for the reply. Two things: first I wonder if you remember the song, "You love to call the young/to carry out your move/to leave the world behind/to have a change of mind/(Chorus)New, new, new/Your move is so new/Take us Lord, possess us to be channels for You" That song may have been after your time. But if you had a dollar for every time WL said "new" you could probably buy a house. Everything was made new, with him. Like the song, "New, new, new".

"He's [Christ] so new and fresh/available and dear" (Splendid Church Life). This was attractive to the young folks: who didn't want to be new? Conversely, who wanted to be old, and stale? But this sleight-of-hand maneuver allowed centuries of Christian understanding to be overturned on a whim of WL. Everything became new, even Christian understanding. For better and for worse. If he woke up and decided to vaporize traditional Christian teachings, 'poof' it was gone. And everybody cried "Hurrah!"

Secondly, if you feel at all inspired or care to remember, it would be helpful to get some of the details of some of those names that LSM mention in their version of the events, in the "Local Church Controversies" wikipage that I copied here. I'm pretty sure they only give part of the story. Anything you share likely hasn't been told publicly before. So for historical completeness you might help out here. It seems you have some personal experience with names that are fairly unknown to most here (and I'm pretty familiar with a lot of the online material).

Thanks.