The apostates have been running this scam for years. A Ponzi scheme takes new money to pay the earlier fools who invested their money with the criminal. Those who are paid off think they have received great returns, so they brag and expand the number of fools who think they can make 10-15% year after year. The Baptist Foundation of Arizona ran a Ponzi scheme until one person asked some pointed questions.
The Church Shrinkers have been arguing that they could do better with everyone's money by taking it from schools (which are for us) and giving it to missions (which are for Jesus), especially foreign missions. In the Wisconsin Synod the budget percentages were reduced for schools year after year until the entire system faced collapse.
Did everything grow because of investment in Fuller, Willow Creek, and Trinity Deerfield theories? Just the opposite is true. The money is spent, the schools are broke, and the synod continues to shrink.
The Sausage Factory managers say, "Look at all the money we spent on dorms and Tiefel's chapel!" I was in the old chapel. I never thought, "This place needs a few million spent on it." Likewise, the dorms.
In the last 30 years, all the new stuff in WELS has been aimed at promoting the Fuller agenda. The Shrinkers have covered up more scandals than the Democrat and Republican parties put together.
After 30 years of abject, embarrassing failure, Church and Chicanery has an answer for the Wisconsin Synod: "WELS needs our leadership, more than ever before. God cannot do His work without us."
