One Synod, Two Minds

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "WELS Budget Cuts":

I realize that most "one plan" ideas in the past were not what most people wanted and pushed down the gullets of the delegates. However, in suggesting that the leadership of the synod present one plan instead of two, my intention was to give one plan, but not shove it down the throats of the delegates. Instead, my thought was that they would be there is any optional information the floor committee and plenary committee wants and would have solid data to back it up.
This issue I have with two plans is that the leadership seems to have indicated their favored position by calling it Option A. It would also seem that, in offering two positions, they can favor one (A) by making the other unacceptable to many (B), with the closing of MLS.

As I see it, the two options making the closing of MLS such a hot potato that the synod leadership did not want to deal with it, so they are leaving it up to the floor committee to make the decision, thus relieving the synod's leadership of negative PR.

Instead of good leadership, it see (sic) it is the cleverest political move they (sic) synodical council could have devised. They are off the hook completely. When all it said and done, they can say, "We had nothing to do with it. It was your decision, and we are simply carrying out the decision of the convention." To me, the two option plan either shows indecision by the synodical leaders or fear of again being the bad guys.

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GJ- The Synodical Council has such people as Safari Timmerman on it. He stated that most worship is adiaphora anyway, that WELS is clearly failing, that something must be done.

Something has been done--for the last 30 years--by the Shrinkers: Patterson, Valleskey, Roth, Huebner, Olson, Bivens, Bruce Becker, The Love Shack Staff, and The Sausage Factory.

WELS has been trying to put a Corvair engine in a Chevvy, anti-confessional marketing efforts to make a Means of Grace body grow. So it has shrunked up considerably while wasting millions of dollars.

As one sage observer mentioned to me in a signed email, the schools have fixed costs. It makes no sense to take away $1 million from the schools (as the Timmerman SC gang wants) to help fund a nebulous concept of missions. I would tell the SC, if invited, "You made your bed. Now lie in it."