"When error is admitted into the Church, it will be found that the stages of its progress are always three. It begins by asking toleration. Its friends say to the majority: You need not be afraid of us; we are few, and weak; only let us alone; we shall not disturb the faith of others...Indulged in this for a time, error goes on to assert equal rights. Truth and error are two balancing forces...From this point error soon goes on to its natural end, which is to assert supremacy."
Charles P. Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology, Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House, 1871, p. 195f.
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Stage 1 - A few useful ideas. Peter Wagner is a heretic, but you will be one of his fans, too.
Stage 2 - Opponents of Church Growth are legalistic.
Stage 3 - Church and Change Conference banned in 2005, promoted from the WELS website in 2007.
