I was looking at the pages read statistic from Technorati and saw a huge spike on Tuesday of this week. I wondered if it was a mistake, so I checked Google Analytics - same spike.
Mrs. Ichabod opined, "The conventions!" She thinks the district conventions were checking on Ichabod posts - I assume in the privacy of their rooms.
The Michigan District convention was just over. The description I got was "grim," although SP Schroeder gave an uplifting message. Besides the MLS and missionary cuts, pastors are being eliminated from their positions in their congregations.
PS - Update. I found another reason for the spike. I ran the story on the Coptic cleric who evangelizes Muslims. That got the highest page reads of all time.
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Anonymouse has left a new misspelled comment on your post "Ichabod Stats Spike on June 9th":
So your readership when (sic) from 5 to 10 on that day. Nice.
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GJ - You wish. A WELS pastor reported, "Everyone reads Ichabod."
Perhaps they long for complete sentences, good grammar, and proper spelling.
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I wonder if the C&C slugs are negotiating a joint fatwa with the Mohammadists?
+Diet O. Worms
Yes, I heard that some returning missionaries are actually splitting up spacious parsonages with their offspring who are WELS pastors/pastors' wives since they don't have a home nor a job, and little hope of getting a decent job or home anytime soon. The only question is how long the congregations will allow the parsonages to be turned into duplexes.
Since everything belongs to God – and not you, no theft was involved. How do you like that line of reasoning?
WELS laymen need to listen more to their leaders. The current decline and failures result from insufficient prayer for church leaders, poor stewardship, offerings that do not keep up with expenses, and failure to trust God. The WELS laity causes all of the problems because of their sinfulness!
Do NOT hold your leaders accountable. Blame yourself. It is that simple. Really. Somewhere I can find a passage or two to prove it.
Blaming the laymen is like blaming the taxpayer for Congress's profligate spending. Enough just isn't ever enough.
The spike came from impassioned Muslims, certainly not from apathetic WELS members.
By all means blame yourself. Feel bad about it. And by no means do anything about it. Doing something about it would be too much like Christ chasing the money changers out of the temple.
So your readership when from 5 to 10 on that day. Nice.
(wiping tear from eye, getting up off the floor from laughing so hard)
Anon Jun12 2:37AM is so cleverly facetious. It captures perfectly the wickeds' views.
The big foundation money is gone. Done. Kaput. The church needs to change.
+Diet O. Worms
The money changers, and the Church and Changers, (are they one in the same?) both need to be driven from the temple. The laity was being blamed even in the good economic times. When the offerings didn't line up with the expenses generated by grandiose expansion plans, and the subsequent cost overruns, the laity was blamed for being tight-fisted. Because of the subtle doctrine of leadership infallibility, it was never their fault. It is coming back to bite them.
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