Out of Egypt:

One of those rare theological posts

I agreed with this comment by Christopher Jones, avowed "Luthodox":

...Scaer's [a conservative Lutheran theologian] monergism is so thorough-going that it amounts to saying that we are still all peccator and no justus - even after baptism.

In other words, regeneration does not automatically make us fully restored, but it does restore the possibility of cooperation. Before regeneration we not only do not cooperate, but cannot cooperate; after regeneration we can cooperate, but (being still fallen) do not always do so.

Perhaps the whole story is not being told here, since we can only thank Christ for our ability to cooperate even now, yet there is real cooperation going on. And if confessional Lutheranism disputes that, then I have at least one reason to stay Reformed.