Anonymouse has left a new clueless comment on your post "Another Reason for WELS Budget Problems":
I just stumbled across this blog recently and I just have one question. Forgive me if this has been addressed before, but I had trouble navigating your blog.
In what way are the derogatory name-calling ("Sausage Factory" instead of WLS for example) and personal attacks littered throughout this site God-pleasing or furthering His kingdom? Thanks for your response.
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GJ - The nickname Sausage Factory comes from the Little Sect on the Prairie, something Pastor Jay Webber told me, laughing. I suggest you admonish the ELS.
I consider vague, anonymous accusations a personal attack, but maybe I am too sensitive.
The WELS Shrinkers call those who question their agenda - senile (former WLS president), brain-damaged (senior pastor who opposed amalgamation and CG), legalist (moi), and Crusader.
Promoting false doctrine is not God-pleasing, but the Shrinkers have been getting away with in in Missouri, WELS, and the Little Sect for decades. The last time I checked Galatians 1:8, Matthew 7:15, and the Confessions, false teachers were damned rather than promoted.
Paul Calvin Kelm fought tenaciously to have Leonard Sweet as the Church and Chicanery speaker, refused to discuss the issue with any brothers, and found himself elevated to The Love Shack. Exactly how God-pleasing was that, Mr. Anonymouse?
How has false doctrine furthered the Kingdom? The old Synodical Conference is not littered but strangled with it.
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For those new Ichabodies, a good hint that you're dealing with an Enthusiast (that is, someone who twists and seeks to add to God's Word and its correct explanations ) is their obsession with the word "Kingdom."
They buzz-buzz like bees alighting on bubble phrases like "Kingdom leader," "Kingdom work," and "gospel of the Kingdom" [sick sic] or "savn ppl 4 da Kingdom!" so they can avoid the heavy lifting of dealing with sin, it's consequences, and our Redeemer. To venture a bit on the darker side of human nature, "Kingdom" has an appealing sound to an impoverished, church planted pastor-wannabe.
We saw a taste of it the other day in the examination of the Church of the Plugged Toilet across the bridge from the Popcorn Cathedral. RLSchultz quite ably cautions and warns against such thinkers in his comments to that post.
+Diet O. Worms
Permit me a clarification on my phrase "heavy lifting of dealing with sin..." We add these burdens to ourselves, perhaps to provide ourselves the satisfaction of adding to what He has already done. I stand corrected by the good doctor.
Luther's Table Talk, CCXXV:
... How could we perform a more easy service of God, without all labor or charge? There is no work on earth easier than the true service of God: he loads us with no heavy burdens, but only asks that we believe in him and preach of him. True, thou mayest be sure thou shalt be persecuted for this, but our sweet Saviour gives us a comfortable promise: "I will be with you in the time of trouble, and will help you out," etc., Luke xii. 7. I make no such promise to my servant when I set him to work, either to plough or to cart, as Christ to me, that he will help me in my need. We only fail in belief: if I had faith according as the Scripture requires of me, I alone would drive the Turk out of Constantinople, and the pope out of Rome; but it comes far short; I must rest satisfied with that which Christ spake to St Paul: "My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is strong in weakness."
+Diet O. Worms
I really want to know in what way the arrogance of WELS leaders is God-pleasing or furthering His kingdom.
The air of superiority sure seems familiar and irksome.
their obsession with the word "Kingdom."
Add "Kingdom Concept" to that list. That one's actually being used.
I still have to wonder how tearing down others is beneficial to anything or anyone except the ego of the one doing the insulting.
Your response was pretty much what I should have expected I suppose... "My sin? But look at what THEY did! What about them?" And you're right. There is a great deal of sinfulness in the WELS and it's leaders. Turns out its a pretty universal problem.
In no way do I intend to have an air of superiority in my comments (in fact the very accusation seems to me to be the epitome of irony). Just trying to understand the benefits of this blog besides the tearing down of others. Based on your response I take it there are none. And apparently now I've become one of your "anonymous" targets.
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