Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming In

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Church and Change - Cannot Count Either":

If you are making more teaching critical thinking than I can imagine, I pity your poor students. They are being cheated. You dispute any statement that doesn't match your preconceived notions by using ridicule and insults, rather than logical arguments. That is hardly evidence of an open, evaluative mind or someone who knows how to discriminate among multiple philosophies or ideas.

[GJ - Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. And give us your name, so we can sit at your feet and drink in the wisdom.]

Your response adds a small number of congregations to the list, two of which are no longer WELS and haven't been for years. Oh, that's right, you haven't been a WELS member for years either, and have no direct personal knowledge of the current state of most WELS congregations and pastors. Instead, you rely on half truths and innuendo from disgruntled "insiders" to bolster your arguments.

[GJ - The trend is obvious, and it spread to WELS Lutherans For Life, the hymnal (so ghastly it should not have Lutheran on it), and the magazine (which Slick Brenner called the Ladies Home Companion). Institutional stealth is even more suggestive of unionism, Sweetism, and Hybelism. Posts like this encourage even more information to come in. Thanks.]

One of your favorite retorts is to criticize the spelling and grammar of those commenters whom you believe to be "Church and Change" adherents. Yet, your own writing style is blase and uninteresting. Copying and pasting long lists of quotes from your Megatron database, most of which are 10-15 years old, is a wonderful demonstration of the poorest form of writing and communication. I may use it as an example in my class entitled "How Not to Write."

[GJ - One WELS teacher wrote in to say that he or she noticed the same thing about WELS bad spelling, chuckling about it. Bad spelling on the official website is funny, but promoting Church and Change on it - not. Many of my quotations are 500 years old, well worth reading. Sometimes I quote Augustine, 1600 years old.]

Your online sermons are no better - they are stilted and boring. The core message of most of them is your dissatisfaction with organized churches. This is the most likely reason you have had to create your own "church" to gain a hearing. No one else would be interested in someone with so little aptitude for teaching and preaching the Gospel.

[GJ - Ichabodians. Notice the comparison. The quotations are annoying and the sermons no better. I think this person is very disturbed about the orthodox Lutheran quotations. The sermons are provided for those who wish to read them. As far as I know, Ichabod is not required reading for anyone. According to this dyspepsic reader, thousands of Lutherans have erred in buying books I have written. Brug suggested Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant to the students at the Sausage Factory. Kurt Marquart recommended the book.]

And, finally, I am not a reverend. Nor am I a member of Church and Change.

[GJ - No, you are not reverend. I am not sure what a member of Church and Change is. I believe the official levels there are Obi-wans, Robots, and Useful Idiots with Money.]

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming In":

Hilarious! The WELS troopers scream, “no one reads your blog Jackson.” Yet it is probably one of the most read Lutheran blogs.

Everyone screams and hollers about what you write. Yet they keep coming back.

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GJ - I was emailing doctrinal bulletins for a long time. I decided to blog after being kicked off a conservative website because I said Bush was a liberal. Some ask about publishing with Christian News, but this gets to people immediately without an editorial filter.