In "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," innocent people keep trying to tell others that aliens are assuming the form of humans and taking over the world. Each time the listener turns out to be one of the pod people.
One WELS observer wrote me that this has been the story of WELS for the last 40 years. No matter who is elected for what office, no matter what he says he will do, he turns into one of the pod people and is worse, if anything.
The bureaucracy has become self-perpetuating. The bigger it is, the more it wants for itself. "Feed me." That's another picture - "Little Shop of Horrors."
Like my friend, I doubt that any election will change matters in WELS. All the synods are coming unglued. That is not exactly tragic, given the damage they inflict on people.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
