bewitched the students, and left with a ton of rare,
stolen books from the Concordia, St. Louis library.
- They went outside the denomination to earn their doctorates.
- Their academic efforts were rewarded with choice positions teaching the seminary students.
- They pretended to be Old School while teaching the students their new doctrine, absorbed from false teachers.
- They loved Gehrke and Jungkuntz, men with doctorates who taught the Word of God was full of errors.
- They organized political groups which polarized their synod.
- By the time they were found out, they had taken over most of the seminary and all of the synodical political structure.
- They screamed and howled when they were exposed.
No, this is not a tale about the LCMS explosion called Seminex. That story just happens to have repeated itself in the Wisconsin Synod. In fact, many of the LCMS Seminex leaders graduated from Northwestern College, Watertown, that bastion of orthodoxy. Jungkuntz and Gehrke taught there until they were finally exposed as false teachers. They moved up to the LCMS, then to ELCA. Their college students became the apostate CGM leaders of WELS.
The Sausage Factory prides itself on turning out identical products. When Valleskey was hired as their Church Growth professor, the tide of apostasy washed away doctrinal discernment. Valleskey became VP, then president of the seminary. Wendland is another Shrinker and Valleskey's pal Bivens is the VP.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Two Approaches - One of Them Dead Wrong":
'they all end up buying Hell when they could have heaven for free.'
Truer words were never spoken. Isn't it sad that these dog and pony shows like Sweet, Stetzer, Stanley, Groeschel, etc. think so highly of themselves that they themselves make money off the fools who spend great amounts of money to attend their seminars? If they were truly concerned for all those lost souls in the world, wouldn't they share all this valuable information with the masses for free?
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GJ - The founder of Christian Science realized that people value expensive religious information. Of course, that fad has gone the way of zoot suits and 23 skidoo.
I give away everything, and all I get from Minnie Mouse is grief.