By Larry Beane
Here is an example of what I believe is in store for any church body that pursues a dumbed-down theological track for pastors - especially one that limits personal exposure of candidates to faculty and seminary colleagues, and/or rushes candidates through a truncated academic program based on a delusional and hysterical argument of a "clergy shortage."
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GJ - WELS calls it Staph Ministry, and it is spreading fast. Martin Luther College is their "College of Ministry," so every student is a minister. All the women are ministers. They graduate as ministers and the male teachers are ordained.
Not to worry. The Staph Ministers are guided by Lawrence Otto Olson, who studied at Trinity in Deerfield and Fuller Seminary. His limited publications are cries of exultation for the triumph of Church Growth in WELS and Missouri, with various comments mocking the efficacy of the Word.
Larry, thou hast conquered.
