Church and Change: The Sacred Cow Is Hamburger

Church and Change overlaps the previous WELS leadership so much that one can say the two are synonymous.

For example:

1. The Love Shack backed every Church Growth project and pastor, such as paying for training at Willow Creek with offering money.
   
2. The Love Shack engaged in a series of joint religious ventures with ELCA, including a radio worship services (Joy!) and evangelism (Church Membership Initiative, etc).
   
3. Name changes just happened to leave out the word Lutheran - Northwestern Lutheran to FIC, WELS Lutherans for Life to Christian Life Resources, The Lutheran Hymnal to Christian Worship.
   
4. WELS just happened to find discipleship in everything. Wayne Mueller turned adult education and youth education posts into Adult Discipleship and Youth Discipleship. Jesus changed His mind, telling the apostles to go out and "Make disciples."
   
5. Fuller activists were constantly promoted and bailed out of their messes, while critics of the Fuller infection were driven out.
   
6. The worst false teachers--Kelly Voigt, Floyd Stolzenburg, Mark Freier, Paul Calvin Kelm, James Huebner, Larry (Staph Infection) Olson, Rick Miller, David Valleskey, Forrest Bivens, Norm Berg--were paraded as examples to follow while faithful pastors actually worked, finding their efforts blessed by God but cursed by meddling Shrinkers.
   
7. Wild hair spending bankrupted the synod, in spite of the enormous annual giving of the Schwan Foundation.
   
8. The synodical schools were strangled out of the budget to pay for all the ridiculous CG projects that used up money faster than the Prodigal Son. As the Kuske Report shows, synod spending doubled while giving stayed the same.
   
9. Mueller-Gurgle forced the synod school tuition up so high that a whole generation of students was lost. At least one school will be closed soon.
   
10. Project Airport--linked from the WELS.net jumpword list--is another example of pursuing the fads of Fuller and ELCA, wasting money, and enforcing Schwaermer orthodoxy. Airport is big on cross-culturalism, a way to spend huge amounts of money to assuage liberal guilt.
    
11. The Church and Change missions just happen to look like Andy Stanley Babtist efforts: dishonest names, big screens, expensive sound systems, rock music, and plagiarized sermons.
    
12. The sheep are directed by the false shepherds to read the works of false teachers among the Enthusiasts and the aping Enthusiasts among the Lutherans. The last Church and Change conference was promoted from the WELS.net website jumpword list while Gurgle told pastors "Church and Change is over, gone, finished, taken apart." Meanwhile, Gurgle has joined forces with Kudu Don Patterson and has an activist brother placed at The Sausage Factory.
    

The wolf-pack is howling now. The Chicaneries have been identified and quoted too often to deny their agenda, their cost to the synod, and their future doom.

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Brian P Westgate has left a new comment on your post "Church and Change: The Sacred Cow Is Hamburger":

Well, technically the full title of Christian Worship is Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal." Though I'm not sure anybody uses the full title . . .

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GJ - "The congregation will now turn to Hymn 100 in Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal."

Yeah, I hear that echoing throughout WELS, especially at Christ the Rock Lutheran Church and The CORE Lutheran Church.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Church and Change: The Sacred Cow Is Hamburger":

Holy cow! Pastors have almost killed that cow. They overdo it during hallucinatory binges that they are on a mission from God. Actually the greater fools of leadership have demanded it.