"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:3-5, ESV)

Perhaps, rather than applaud themselves for how confessional they think they are relative to their fellow sinners in another church body, the good people of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod ought to consider where their own church body falls short, repent of their own sins, then work to become what Christ calls them to be.