Bailing Water Bails Out

John has bailed out of the Bailing Water blog, the third of three to stop working the blog.

Any suggestion that coercion was involved would be a violation of the Eighth Commandment.

No one has stopped the Church and Change website, but President-in-Waiting Wayne Mueller's son is involved that agency of apostasy.

One of the latest dust-ups was over Bailing Water identifying the Kelm/Parlow team plagiarizing Baptist sermons and posting them as their own on the St. Mark's website. Several apologists had these amusing thoughts:
1. Lots of ministers do that. The popularity fallacy.
2. The copied sermons themselves might have been copied from yet another website. Two wrongs make a right - fallacy.
3. Someone had to sit down with Kelm and Parlow and tell them their sin privately, even though Parlow is not known to respond and Kelm is oblivious.
Etc. Etc. Etc.

The WELS Stormtroopers pounce on critics like hobos on a hotdog, unless the critics are making fun of traditional worship and orthodox doctrine. Those critics are just trying to make Holy Mother WELS even more perfect.

It remains to be seen whether WELS has improved under the new SP. It will take a lot more courage than the ministers have shown so far.

I do not fault a layman for giving up. Apostasy has a thousand friends--in many denominations--but the orthodox have to solo.

Holy Mother Fuller Seminary Comforted by Fake Babies

Mother Tiger Lost Cubs: Zoo Fooled Her with Tiger-Wrapped Piglets

Extensive Internet searches for funny animal photos yielded this picture of a tigress feeding tiger-striped piglets. (I apologize to feminist tigers for using the term tigress.) The tigress lost her cubs and became sick with grief, so the zoo wrapped piglets in tiger-skin and tossed them into the cage. Either way, someone was going to eat well that day.

Mommy tigress warmed to her fake babies right away and began feeding them.

Alma Mater means nursing mother, so Ichabodians can see a similar relationship between Fuller Seminary and the Lutheran piglets. They wrap themselves up in Reformed doctrine to be nursed by a unionistic, occultic Reformed-Pentecostal school. Strangely, only ELCA sounded the alarms about Church Growth. When a new CGM parish was destined for Texas, organized opposition forced the project to move to Yorba Linda, California, where it died amidst drunken-sailor spending.

When the ELCA pastor at Community of Joy (Glendale, Arizona) promoted entertainment evangelism in the august pages of The Lutheran, fire warning lights blinked on throughout ELCA. Neuhaus gave a lecture against Church Growth at the Ad Fontes gathering in Pennsylvania. A Lutheran seminary professor screamed and threw the offending issue of The Lutheran from the pulpit.

Meanwhile, in the conservative old Synodical Conference (WELS-ELS-LCMS) all was quiet as Fuller piglets seized power and extended the Left Foot of Fellowship to the few critics of their Alma Mater, Fuller.

Willow Creek Community Church--a suburban mall of pop culture, easy listening, and a Christ without a cross--beckoned with lascivious grace. Conservative Lutheran leaders doubled-down and learned at WC as well. Many conservative pastors joined the Willow Creek Association, which suddenly became secretive after its LCMS members were listed in Christian News.

Is This Your Synod?

Traditional Episcopalian Congregations Want To Leave With Their Property. The Presiding Bishop Wants To Own It.

Virtue Online:

Thirdly, the notion that properties must be held for future generations is laughable. There are some 7,000 parishes in The Episcopal Church whose average attendance is less than 70 with the average age of about 66. In little more than a decade, most will close with the Columbariums full. The larger parishes, with hundreds of members, are evangelical. They are the ones that are leaving and want the properties their people built and paid for. And why shouldn't they? Why should they pass their buildings on to a dysfunctional church that has no gospel to proclaim except Millennium Development Goals, unbiblical notions of inclusivity and diversity that saves no one and nothing?

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GJ - The Lutherans are in the same bind. The plums of the past are prunes today, withered and dry, liberal and empty, with plenty of endowment money. Lutherans are too timid to break away from Holy Mother Synod.