The Shrinkers of Church and Change get their power from the gullibility of members and pastors, but also from their proven history as liars, bullies, and slanderers.
One pastor said that he is like many others, afraid to lose his position by speaking out. Why is that? Read a few nasty-grams from the Shrinkers. They never disclose their names, but they are busy on the legendary WELS grapevine spreading stories about anyone who dares to question them while covering up for their pals.
Some may imagine that Ski, Glende, Buske, and Katy are the only WELS workers coming back from Drive 09, the Babtist conference in Atlanta. Since Parlow went to the last one, we can assume plenty of the Chicanery leaders were there as well. They identify with the Babtists. They read Babtist books (when they read), listen to Babtist tapes and podcasts, and buy Babtist programs.
The Shrinkers are Pietists, not the Biblical Lutherans they pretend to be. They cannot abide being examined by someone who knows comparative dogmatics. (Nota bene: they cannot spell comparative on their own website. They cannot do what they cannot spell.)
If a Doctrinal Pussycat cannot expose the doctrinal errors of the Shrinkers, he could leave the ministry because he is not "apt to teach," a requirement for pastoral ministry.
I have yet to see a single refutation from a Shrinker sent to this blog. The Church and Chicanery comments boil down to:
- You are wrong (no reasons given).
- You use lies and half-truths (no examples given).
- You are a bad person.
- Obscenities.
- You are angry and bitter. But, I hear WELS pastors read Ichabod every day and laugh their heads off.
- Bad spelling, bad grammar, bad sentence structure.
- Starbucks uses real whipped cream, so you are wrong.
- Britain's Got Talent is 100% honest, so you are wrong again.
