This is all I have to say about that…
January 2nd, 2008
Well, in response to my last post, Gregory Jackson posts again here. It is futile to respond as in reading other posts on the blog I’ve discovered it’s pretty much a vendetta against the various Lutheran synods (or perhaps organized Lutheranism?) and there’s no use trying to discuss anything reasonably there. Wonder if I should point out that the “he” which GJ refers to as the author of the moose report is actually a “she.” On reading what he has to say about the role of women, probably not a good idea. It’s interesting to note, however, that a Lutheran who does not agree with him suddenly becomes a pagan. Thankfully my Lord and Savior knows better. Anyway, you will find no more comments or discussion from me on the subject. Next topic: Quilting!!
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GJ - It is possible to sign a comment with one's own true name. The trouble with anonymous or fake name comments is that no one really knows who has written. The only venomous emails I get are from one or two anonymous WELS defenders, who are the equivalent of little boys phoning people, saying something rude, and hanging up.
The gratuitous comments above are too silly to parse.
If someone thinks it is a tragedy that Leonard Sweet, Kent Hunter, and paleo-Werning cannot teach WELS about evangelism, then that person is worth quoting, to show how far apostasy has reached.
As they say, "A fish rots from the head down." Denominations begin rotting at headquarters and at the seminary. WELS Pastor Steve Kurtzahn called Valleskey a wolf in sheep's clothing 11 years ago.
The Church Growth Movement came from the bowels of Hell, WELS headquarters. First they had their cheap little newsletter, TELL, published at headquarters. Then they got their TELL editor appointed as Secretary of Evangelism. All the chief posts at headquarters went to Church Growth, Fuller-trained robots. Somehow a number of Church Growth professors got selected through their political process to befuddle the minds of future pastors.
Now the false doctrine is glibly parroted in every corner of WELS, with the Amen corner in Mankato (The Little Sect on the Prairie).
False doctrine is like cancer. It has to be rooted out, not cheered on. Twenty years ago, the LCA would have laughed at Sweet as a hippy leftover from campus chaplaincy days. Now he is courted by WELS, fawned over by WELS bloggers, and interviewed with sacred awe by the president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.
That's what I meant about Sweet and the apostates winning, even though the 2005 conference was canceled, with violins long-bowing I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry in the background.
