I remember hearing WELS pastors bemoan the apostasy of the LCMS before the Seminex crisis. They liked to point out that ecclesiastical rot begins at the top. "A fish starts stinking at the head," they claimed.
When innocent seminaries are having their brains washed and re-washed, guess who are extolled as models to be followed in the ministry? Luther, Chemnitz, Chytraeus, Passavant, or some living confessional Lutherans? Egad, no.
At Mequon, the models to follow are: Parlow, Mark Jeske, Aderman (!), Randy Hunter. Everyone should work his congregation down to half-size, in the name of Church Growth, get fired, lose even more members, retire, grab the call back, and write on the Ten Commandments for The Northwestern Lutheran FIC.
