When I wrote against propositional theology earlier, one TBW (True Blue WELS) pastor alleged that made me a Wauwatosan.
No, Wauwatosa is a perfect example of inbreeding, propositional theology, and upside-down exegesis. We only need to look at the fruit of those years of line-breeding the same concepts. Someone summarized WELS this way:
1. We are never wrong.
2. When in doubt, see #1.
Wauwatosan doctrine is not even original. "The world has been declared righteous" is plagiarized from Missouri. Church Growth is xeroxed from Pasadena. They even had to import old whizzers like Hunter and Werning to teach CGM at the Church and Change Schwaermer-fest.
The current movement toward women's ordination is from Fuller, cell groups, and Willow Creek Community Church.
WELS' infallibility doctrine means they must continue to defend UOJ, CGM, women's ordination, and cell groups because their leaders have supported those items. If someone should withdraw approval from something Becker taught or Valleskey favored, that would be The End. The Day of Wrath. WELS fallible? That alone is the sin against the Holy Spirit.
WELS is destined to become Unitarian unless there is a widespread revolt equal to the Episcopalian slo-mo riot.
