Church and Change loves it, funds it with your offering money,
and promotes it with your offering money.
My initial response to the St. Andrews article, copied below: "This is another hit below the belt from Church and Change operatives at The Love Shack."
If a significant number of WELS/ELS pastors actually committed themselves in writing, to object about the article, it would be the last one like that. The Little Sect on the Prairie is in fellowship with WELS. Silence means agreement, and they have been silent forever and a day.
The laity need to voice their objections, too. One way is through church council resolutions. An article like this makes anyone in the Christian faith look foolish and self-centered. More importantly, St. Andrews Latter diminishes and adulterates the Gospel in the name of making it attractive.
One person alone is going to accomplish nothing. I remember how the closet conservatives would urge me to write about this or that. They never could get themselves to second the motion.
That is why farces like the Stolzenburg-Kuske Pilgrim Community Church are now a mini-denomination within WELS--and the ELS!--today.
Closet conservatives - you bought and paid for this situation with your silence, your cowering before the apostates, and your coveting of a better call.
