Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Sound Advice from Freddy Finkelstein":
Typical Church and Change resentment when given reproof and correction. Unless they get the respect that they think they richly deserve they react with vindictiveness and nastiness.
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GJ - Yes, there was an interesting event involving the Florida WELS experiment, which became a Roman Catholic parish. They actually built an attractive building, threw all kinds of money at it, and put their most unstable Church Growth pastors in it, all at once. Randy Catter and Mark Freier were involved; neither one is Lutheran now.
At a nearby parish someone made a chance remark during a church council meeting. It was mild and factually true. Well, he had to apologize. And he did. That was not enough. This went on forever. I received a stack of papers in the mail. Otherwise it would not be believable that grown men could wig out and stay wigged out for so long.
I have noticed that WELS DPs want a triple-scoop of apologies, too. I have never known that a DP apologized for wrecking parishes, for ruining the lives and families of pastors, for promoting known adulterers and false teachers.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
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