The Future of Apostasy

The somewhat conservative Universalists merged with the radical Unitarians, who used to believe in God, to form the UUA. They are the cutting edge, to use a Fuller term, of denominational evolution. Follow the UUA to predict your synod's future.

Behind the UUA (in radicalism) is the rapidly failing United Church of Christ, comprised of Congregationalists plus the Evangelical and Reformed, the E and R being an earlier merger. Yale was founded as a conservative school to combat the influence of Harvard. Harvard turned Unitarian while Yale remained Congregationalist.

Led by David Preus, the ELCA pushed forward its relationships with the Reformed and eventually established altar fellowship with the UCC. What the UCC earlier proclaimed (after the more radical UUA), ELCA now teaches without qualms. The basis for altar fellowship now means - "We don't believe anything either!"

WELS and Missouri used to get huffy about how liberal the LCA was, how unionistic those liberals were. Now the hero du jour for WELS is one Leonard Sweet, a very lefty Methodist who makes the Wisconsin CG leaders look positively modest. They used to pretend Fuller Seminary was conservative and teaching them non-doctrinal methods, but now the mask is off. Sweet is quoted, with adoration, on WELS.net.

Someone would have to be as ill-informed as a WELS seminarian's wife to think Wisconsin, Missouri, and the Little Sect are not in fellowship with ELCA.

And yes, the four-letter synods are collapsing, financially and in membership, just like the UUA and UCC. The caboose must necessarily follow the engine of apostasy.