WELS Gets Scripture Citation Wrong

The WELS meltdown continues. Look for the WELS Crisis PowerPoint at the following location. I am picturing the Wicked Witch in Wizard Oz addressing Marvin Schwan:

I'm melting, melting! Who would have thought a little brat like you could destroy such beautiful wickedness!

Manifold and manifest are the ironies. Marvin Schwan died, leaving WELS in a panic. He was always bailing them out of their messes. Now what? Good news. He left his estate to his foundation, which owned all the Schwan stock. Marvin's brother then redeemed the stock with profits from Schwan Frozen Foods, year by year. Marvin's brother ran the trust and the company at the same time. The result was that WELS was flooded with incredible wealth at first, but that tapered off rapidly. If the money had built up slowly, the sect would have remained arrogant instead of becoming terrified of the facts.

The people who created this heart-wrenching PowerPoint made two huge mistakes. One is that they quoted from the Today's NIV. (Fred asks Martha: "You mean there is a translation even worse than the NIV?" Answer - Yes, Today's NIV.) Secondly, they quoted the cheerful giving verse and cited it as coming from 1 Corinthians 9 instead of 2 Corinthians.

KJV 2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Anyone could make a mistake like that. People often do. But normally one has extra readers to spot errors like that. Or, since WELS is so Biblical, as they keep telling everyone, someone could send them an email and fix this blunder. It's not the typo, WELS, it's the cover-up, the failure to fix a goof.

PS - If you look over all the material at the website you will see a trend I suspected years ago. Every since 1980 the administrative part of the budget has gone up and the school portion has gone down. The world missions area has trended upward overall. The one steady change has been a consistent downward trend for the school budget, now called Ministry Education. The teachers are all ministers. The male teachers are ordained.