Do Money Issues Cause Loss of Faith?

Anonymous said, in part:

"I don't believe our "Lutheran leaders" are fat cats trying to get wealthy off our students' tuition. Those I know personally are faithful servants who are serving their Lord and His church to the best of their ability. I ask you to please follow scripture's directive in 1 Timothy 5 by honoring and recognizing them as such. I encourage you to exert your critical energy toward a more noble and God-pleasing attack on satan's schemes to steal souls from the flock.

Nice straw man fallacy. Student tuition is not enough to make the synod leaders wealthy. They also need the Schwan funds, Thrivent funds, and the Milcraft estate. Is there something in the Bible about preying on widows and orphans? Or is that Shakespeare, or McGavran?

I honor sound teachers, but they are not in synod leadership positions. The synods (not just WELS) do not tolerate any variation from their agenda. Look at Pope John the Malefactor (Little Sect on the Prairie). He threatens and excommunicates, just like Rome.

There is no difference between WELS and Missouri leadership absorbing offering money for themselves while hiking up the cost of education. By making robotic conformity the price to pay for a minister's salary, the synod leaders guarantee that apostasy will reign.

I hope the defensive and thin-skinned responder(s) will focus on the need to repudiate false doctrine, wherever it is taught, whoever may teach it.

Copy and paste some of your Ichabod comments and send them to Leonard Sweet and his disciples. Find out who is erecting a shrine to Sweet in WELS and expell them. Demand the rejection of Reformed doctrine and methods in the synod.

Stop listening to Roman Catholic leaders.

Luther said that Satan likes those shepherds who fatten the sheep for the slaughter, as the crypto-Methodists are doing. Satan does not tolerate the growling of the guard dog.

WELS pastors turn Pentecostal for the same reason Ft. Wayne graduates turn Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. They are trained in false doctrine, want to please their false prophet teachers, and jump ship. Others just walk the tightrope between Lutheran doctrine and false doctrine, leading others to do the same.