Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Leonard Sweet-hearts War, 2005":
Note also that the leaders of Church and Change approached various Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary students asking them to spread the word about the upcoming 2007 conference. Word was passed that the registration fee would be lowered to $75 for seminarians. None of this went through "official" channels. Eventually, senior Tom Engelbrecht sent out an email to the entire student body (but not the faculty) letting everyone know that the registration fee had now been waived. Seminarians got free admission to the Change-fest! I believe that only a small handful of people attended workshops there. Many students saw those handful of students with Church and Change name tags as permanently branded: "Apostate."
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Not So Sweet-heart":
The methods of the WELS apostates remind me of what my father used to say when he quipped - "give 'em an inch and they'll take a foot". When called out on the carpet for inviting a New Age guru like Sweet they say, "well, we are really not engaging in any kind of fellowship. Therefore, we can glean some good ideas from him". Why not take a page from Ralph Bohlmann's book and say they you are just engaging in different "levels of fellowship"?
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themrs has left a new comment on your post "The Leonard Sweet-hearts War, 2005":
I have posted a comment and am curious as to why it hasn't been approved? I want to reiterate the fact that I did not in my post say anything in support of Sweet and am irritated that you introduced my post by saying my blog supported Sweet. The point of my post was that hosting non-WELS speakers is not breaking prayer fellowship. Please allow my feedback on your post or remove any references to my post or blog from your site as it has been misinterpreted and misused. Thank you.
GJ - There is no name for the comment above, no link to identify the writer with the Moose Report. The most telling paragraph was exactly what the author wrote. I will repeat it below, with the link.
The Moose Report
This symposium was on evangelism. Apparently it is breaking fellowship by bringing in those who have effective evangelism programs that actually work because they are not WELS. Our synod is losing members faster than they are gaining them. You’d think they’d be open to new ideas. There is a serious danger here in this fellowship misapplication. Those planning to attend have lost the opportunity to learn about other evangelism methods to win souls for Christ.
Marks of Apostasy
The marks of apostasy are clearly visible in one paragraph. "Effective evangelism programs" = the Word of God is not effective or efficacious. "Open to new ideas" = Lutherans cannot rely on the Means of Grace. "Our synod is losing members" = abandon trust in God's Word. "There is a serious danger" = It is wrong to avoid false teachers. In the newest version of the NIV, "Mark and avoid" means "register and attend."
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. Romans 16:17-18 KJV
