Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Church Growth False Teachers - As Subtle as a Zeph...":
Would you care to give concrete examples of WELS teaching decision theology and the sacraments as ordinances? And please don't offer any opinions, inuendos (sic) or half-truths. Let's see the plain and clear evidence. Put up or shut-up.
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GJ - Are they required to read Ichabod at the Sausage Factory? People keep returning so they can denounce what they have just read. I can tell this is a WELS post because the spelling is atrocious. They need a course in the preps - "Here is where you turn on the spell-check tool. Microsoft is very confusing, I realize, so we have this class designed to show you save, save as, spell-check, and new document. We will spend several weeks on spell-check so Ichabod will stop laughing at the crown jewels of our educational system."
Ichabodians, notice how testy this poor fellow is? "Put up or shut up." He is pretty ignorant, too. Which is a higher form of ignorance - not knowing or pretending not to know? Thy Strong Word, available for free, has hundreds of examples. I have published hundreds of articles in Christian News. I have furnished lists of quotations on Ichabod. I had a conference paper which was a best-seller for WELS. Everyone took it and copied it after the conference, but no one defended it. I actually sold the paper for a period of time. And, during this entire time, my name was on each publication.
Here is just one example of Deformed doctrine taught by two Church Growth stars of the Sausage Factory - Valleskey and Bivens. They produced a new members book so bad that Northwestern Publishing House refused to publish it. NPH has some scruples, after all. Bivens and Valleskey, both acknowledged veterans of Fuller Seminary, wrote about "spiritual-breathing" which they got from the false teacher William Bright. The Valleskey/Bivens new member book has been used all over WELS, without anyone being disciplined. Have You Made the Wonderful Discovery of the Spirit-filled Life? That is the title of the Bright book, about spiritual breathing, cited with approval by Valleskey and Bivens. Does anyone wonder why WELS has had break-outs of Pentecostalism among its members and clergy? I don't.
Notice, too, Ichabodians, that the anonymous post makes several charges without supporting them with a shred of evidence. That is typical of WELS. If I pick up the phone and someone starts screaming at me without saying hello, my CPU says, "WELS clergy, three sheets to the wind."
