Bailing Water Comments

Bailing Water

Anonymous said...
Wow, even WELS is wandering to Rick Warren (and his ilk...ever notice, ilk is never a good thing)

So how does WELS measure success?
Nickels and Noses or faithful preaching of the Gospel and administering the Sacrements? Since numbers aren't going up, do you leave the Gospel for a marketing plan??
Just askin'

May 21, 2008 7:37 AM


rlschultz said...
"Who promised that your congregations would grow?"

Very good question which needs to be asked in a situation like this or any other which relies upon "M&M's" - marketing and methods. Furthermore, where is numerical growth even made a requirement of the so-called Great Commission? So much of this type of approach demonstrates a lack of discernment.

The final, default argument for all of this nonsense is that they are just trying to save souls.

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GJ - Somewhere on the Internet, a Baptist has said that the Church Growth ninnies are destroying the Baptist Church. True, I posted some remarks from one article. The one I wanted to find told about the decline in baptisms, the weakness in theology, the cheap marketing tactics.

If someone knows which article I mean, which may have been linked to me recently, I will post it.