Is Fuller Seminary Next?

WELS AnswerMan may be showing symptoms of Lutheran doctrine:

Q: I have been invited to attend a Women of Faith conference. According to their website they are an Interdenominational women's ministry committed to helping women of all faiths, backgrounds, age groups, and nationalities grow emotionally and spiritually. How does WELS feel about attending such conferences?

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A: "Interdenominational" in effect means that they agree to disagree on doctrines of the Bible which they do not regard as essential. In reality, "interdenominational" usually means a kind of non-Lutheran, non-sacramental Evangelicalism. We can't feed our faith with teaching that is deliberately diluted.

Ichabod wonders - cannot the same be said of Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek Community Church, Trinity Deerfield, and InterVarsity Press? Obviously the faith of such Church Growth heroes as - Wayne Mueller, Lawrence Olson, James Huebner, Ron Roth, Frosty Bivens, David Valleskey, Wally Oelhaven, Fred Adrian, and their mentor Floyd Luther Stolzenburg - has not been fed, but starved.

The Love Shack has been running on this mish-mash of Pentecostal-Evangelicalism for decades. Why deny it to the women?

I call WELS headquarters The Love Shack because the heretics therein think they can convert people with love. Luther said that the Word, not love, converts the unbeliever to Christ.

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WELS Statistics Down Again,
September FIC

Page 24: NEWS: WELS membership declining. That's the headline. We learn WELS, between 1990 and 2006, has lost 25,449 souls. But only 5,743 were communicants. Maybe not so oddly, 19,706 were non-communicants. Some 162,942 children and adults were confirmed in those 16 years (mostly children by about 10:6), but more than 150,000 were released either by removal or by request. This is a colorful recap of the stats on the website complete with pretty bar charts.