Someone was annoyed that I imagined the WELS presidency race as between John Brenner and Wayne Mueller.
Pundits do not have to be right all the time, just entertaining and provoking.
The final race was definitely between the two sides I mentioned: Church Growth versus the school system.
Tonight the convention debated closing MLS. As long as the apostates focus on the issue of money, they will win. The issue is doctrine, not money. The contributions have withered away because the tree (WELS leadership) is rotten to the core. WELS is like an old tree that looks sound but is full of mold and sawdust on the inside.
Some would like an outside audit, not from the good old boy Milwaukee auditors, to see where the money has gone. EastCoast, one of my sources, predicts officials going to prison if that happened. That is why I think a real audit is unlikely. Besides, how could WELS admit to being imperfect? Not even a voice from heaven would convince them.
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.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Ichabod as Pundit
