Church and Chicaneries cannot abide opposition. They spend all their energy opposing: good church music, edifying hymns, real sermons (home made, not from Old Scratch), the liturgy, the Creeds, and Biblical doctrine. As soon as anyone opposes them or worse - exposes them, the whining starts.
Pouting, name-calling, and hissy-fits follow. VP Patterson was having a blast shooting zebras until he found himself featured with his odious network on Ichabod. His one response carefully avoided the facts while calling me a fool and a liar. One after another, his network contacted me to oppose what I wrote. Very organized, just like a network.
Ski was floating high above A-town, bragging about his theatre, not realizing the failed Imax was his tarbaby. Life is a party when useful rich idiots fund another pie-in-face for WELS. "We will show the old fuddy-duddies how to do Andy Stanley in our pea-picking synod and make everyone take notice." Ski's pricey executive assistant thought it was the coolest job ever, until the phone started ringing. Now the Imax is their jail. Whatever money was given, how does one fill a monster building using a goofy plan when many others are doing the anti-confessional Stanley clone entertainment center already? Every month the pressure will mount to show results.
They should have taken note of Kelm on the C and C list-serve. He got what he wanted, the Sweet Retreat, but he could not abide any opposition to his plans from his own sty-mates. What happened to Old Eight and Eighteen? He built his career on opposing Lutheran doctrine and promoting Deformed doctrine, but he cannot take people questioning his bad judgment.
Valleskey had to whine to his DP that I never talked to him, knowing full well that I did. A faked whine is ever worse than a normal whine.
Bivens did the same thing, whining that he could not figure out how I got the idea that he went to Fuller Seminary. Yet Bivens knew that it came from his mouth, witnessed by the entire Midland Circuit, including the future DP John Seifert.
Many years ago, James Huebner whined that people cringed when he mentioned Church Growth. Clueless Jim could not figure out that sincere Lutherans consider Fuller doctrine to be theological flatulence. They cringe for good reason. But Huebner made a career out of gas and now has a high but meaningless synodical position.
Larry Olson lowered himself to whining in Christian News, revealing even more disturbing details about his life and work. Who has promoted the ipsissima verba of Dr. Olson more than I? No gratitude.
Wayne Mueller, after being quoted in Christian News, threatened the leaker instead of me. He whined, "If I ever get my hands on the guy who gave that to Greg Jackson..." He let the audience of pastors imagine the grim details.
A Vice President of WELS attacked me by name at a pastoral conference. I was not there to defend myself. Later he found himself defenestrated for propositioning a woman in a counseling session. Soon after he whined that I lied about his exit from the WELS ministry. I sent his aggrieved in-law a copy of the report: "removed for cause." I was so used to liars calling me a liar that I kept records. I even have a thick file of criminal records.
The Church and Changers are not nice people. They make sure they lead a life of ease and luxury, based on Other People's Money. As soon as they spot any opposition, they root it out. They meddle with congregations. While clinging to the Eighth Commandment they spread slander faster than the flu. They demand that anyone who questions their inspiration sit down and explain any reservations about their doctrine. They use that experience to give the person the Sisera treatment, explaining matters with a tent peg and mallet.
People can see now that Church and Change is on the run. Everyone knows about Stetzer. They can all see that the Chicaneries are afraid of announcing their special speaker to their own befuddled followers. Joe Krohn, an ardent Rock and Roll follower, could not get the truth from their deceitful lips.
The Chicaneries are losing their grip on The Love Shack. A few more exits will lead to a new name for WELS headquarters, if some Lutherans start working there.
Anyone who thinks SP Schroeder can handle this alone is a fool. The so-called conservatives have been quieter than an ant wetting cotton. They will have to do more, from the congregational and circuit level to the conference level and beyond. Pastors are obliged to teach, whether they please or not. They are ordained to teach the truth, even if that is deemed unpopular, disturbing, and unbrotherly. It is better to have one brother in faith than enjoy the fellowship of a pit full of vipers.
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One More Whiner has left a new comment on your post "Quick To Whine":
Oh, please! I'm sick and tired of hearing all this stuff over and over and over and over and over again. If I were a doctor, I would diagnose you as having some sort of psychological disorder or something.
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GJ - A doctor would wonder about someone who reads the same blog every day and makes the same whiney comments each time.
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"O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold"
by Martin Luther, 1483-1546
1. O Lord, look down from heaven, behold
And let Thy pity waken:
How few are we within Thy Fold,
Thy saints by men forsaken!
True faith seems quenched on every hand,
Men suffer not Thy Word to stand;
Dark times have us o'ertaken.
2. With fraud which they themselves invent
Thy truth they have confounded;
Their hearts are not with one consent
On Thy pure doctrine grounded.
While they parade with outward show,
They lead the people to and fro,
In error's maze astounded.
3. May God root out all heresy
And of false teachers rid us
Who proudly say: "Now, where is he
That shall our speech forbid us?
By right or might we shall prevail;
What we determine cannot fail;
We own no lord and master."
4. Therefore saith God, "I must arise,
The poor My help are needing;
To Me ascend My people's cries,
And I have heard their pleading.
For them My saving Word shall fight
And fearlessly and sharply smite,
The poor with might defending."
5. As silver tried by fire is pure
From all adulteration,
So through God's Word shall men endure
Each trial and temptation.
Its light beams brighter through the cross,
And, purified from human dross,
It shines through every nation.
6. Thy truth defend, O God, and stay
This evil generation;
And from the error of their way
Keep Thine own congregation.
The wicked everywhere abound
And would Thy little flock confound;
But Thou art our Salvation.
Hymn 260
The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: Ps. 12
Author: Martin Luther, 1523
Translated by: composite
Titled: "Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein"
Tune: "Ach Gott vom Himmel"
1st Published in: Enchiridion
Town: Erfurt, 1524
